How did Mirendil Fern do on X?

Mirendil posted the Fern launch from @bneyshabur on Oct 26, 2026. The post has 217,050 views, 2,345 likes, 200 reposts, 60 quotes and 133 replies, an engagement rate of 1.26%. It ranks #1305 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Behnam Neyshabur@bneyshabur · 48.4K followersView on X
Introducing Fern, Mirendil’s first model: pretrained from scratch, with up to 10M tokens of context! That’s ~0.5M lines of code (roughly Megatron-LM scale) or days of an agent’s work, all in context at once. Its first version, Fern 0.1, had a short round of post-training 🚢
Mirendil Fern launch post media
Oct 26, 2026 · 217,050 views
  • 1.2xthe median launch175K median views
  • #1305of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 4.5xits own following48,381 followers
Views
217.1K
Likes
2.3K
Reposts
200
Quotes
60
Replies
133
Bookmarks
1.3K

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 217.1K views would cost $22K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 4.6x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 4.5 views for every follower of @bneyshabur.

What launched?

Mirendil launched Fern, its first model pretrained from scratch with up to 10M tokens of context, starting with the post-trained Fern 0.1.

How does it compare with other launches?

Mirendil Fern has more views than 54% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 1.2x the median launch's 175K views.

  • Mirendil Fern217.1K
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricMirendil FernMedian launch
Views217.1K175K
Engagement rate1.26%0.48%
Views per follower4.52.8
Quote posts6027
Saves per 10K views58.414.2

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
AI launches1,462263K83%#792
Accounts 10K to 100K followers1,13599.4K2.2x#394
Image launch posts620143.1K1.5x#269
Every launch2,839175K1.2x#1305

What this launch shows

From an account with 48.4K followers, the post reached 4.5 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 1.5 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 394 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 60 quote posts, 2.8 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "Introducing Fern, Mirendil’s first model: pretrained from scratch, with up to 10M tokens of context!". The post runs 46 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.

There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Monday (UTC). Monday launches have a median of 181.4K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

How many views did Mirendil Fern get on X?
217,050 views. Mirendil posted it from @bneyshabur on Oct 26, 2026, and the post has 2,345 likes, 200 reposts, 60 quotes, 133 replies and 1,268 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Mirendil Fern a big launch on X?
It ranks #1305 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 54% of them and 1.2x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 1.26%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 217.1K views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 217.1K views would cost $22K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 4.6x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/mirendil-fern, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.