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Morning Edition · Saturday, October 31, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
Former Anthropic Researchers' Startup Mirendil Releases Fern 0.1, a Coding Model With a Claimed 10-Million-Token Context
On the RULER long-context benchmark at 10 million tokens, Mirendil reports 100% on single-needle retrieval but 45% on multi-hop question answering.
Mirendil, a startup founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, has announced its first model, Fern 0.1 (AI ML Big Data). Neyshabur describes it as pretrained from scratch, with up to 10 million tokens of conte…
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