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Accelerating Investment in Cyprus: The New Business Support Centre’s Role

The government of Cyprus has unveiled the Business Support Centre (BSC) to optimize licensing processes and enhance support for both local and international investors. This initiative provides a centralized access point for essential public services, designed to simplify procedures and minimize delays.

Elena Damianou, a representative from the BSC team, highlights the integrated effort among the Strategic Developments Sector, Invest Cyprus, and the Business Facilitation Unit to deliver coordinated and efficient services. This approach is expected to positively impact both immediate business activity and long-term economic resilience through innovation and job creation.

The BSC stands as a strategic initiative to energize entrepreneurship, improve the competitiveness of the Cypriot economy, and foster high-level investments. Investors will benefit from guidance on company formation, licensing, and support for strategic development projects, especially those qualifying under Law 84(I)/2023, with a fast-track mechanism in place.

A project coordinator will bridge communication between investors and government departments, ensuring all necessary licenses are acquired within a streamlined 12-month period. These efforts align with global best practices, enhancing operational efficiency and administrative transparency through digital transformation.

Currently stationed in Nicosia, the BSC promises accessibility to investors across Cyprus through hybrid remote capabilities, embodying a modern, scalable service delivery model. While additional branches are not planned immediately, ongoing evaluations may inform future expansions.

Mirendil Signs $100 Million Google Cloud Deal To Advance Self-Improving AI

AI startup Mirendil has signed a multi-year agreement worth more than $100 million with Google Cloud to secure computing infrastructure for its self-improving AI research.

The partnership reflects growing competition among AI companies to lock in access to high-performance computing, while cloud providers race to attract promising startups developing next-generation AI models.

Backing The Next Stage Of AI Research

Mirendil plans to use Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), Nvidia GPUs and managed training infrastructure to develop AI systems capable of improving their own performance over time.

Known as recursive self-improvement, the concept focuses on building AI that can refine its knowledge and capabilities with minimal human intervention. The technology is attracting growing interest across the industry, with several startups and leading AI labs exploring similar approaches.

According to co-founder and Chief Executive Behnam Neyshabur, the long-term goal is to develop AI that can automate scientific research and accelerate discoveries in fields such as medicine, biology and materials science.

Compute Capacity Becomes A Strategic Asset

Training increasingly advanced AI models requires enormous computing resources, making long-term infrastructure agreements a critical competitive advantage.

Mirendil said Google’s combination of TPUs and GPUs allows workloads to be matched with the most suitable hardware, improving efficiency while reducing costs for customers.

For Google Cloud, the agreement strengthens its position in the race to provide infrastructure for frontier AI developers, while giving the company exposure to one of the industry’s emerging approaches to next-generation artificial intelligence.

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