Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

TechCrunch · 1 month ago · 46

Inherent, a London AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni, says its Faraday research agent outperformed larger Anthropic and OpenAI models on independently replicating published scientific paper results. Faraday runs on a 27 billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model, while the compared systems are Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. The company is now sharing this agent and claims its smaller, reinforcement-learning-based approach and focus on “research taste” are driving its direction, including plans to grow its team to about 20–25 by the end of the year.