Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
AI startup Inherent has released an agent called Faraday that successfully replicated scientific research findings. The model achieved this performance using a significantly smaller parameter count than frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Why it matters
This demonstrates that smaller, more efficient AI models can compete with massive frontier models in specialized reasoning tasks, potentially lowering the cost of AI research.
Inherent , a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni , says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size.
Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten relatively little attention. But while better-funded rivals have yet to show the world anything concrete, the London-based team is starting to share what it’s been building.
Just weeks after emerging from stealth with a $50 million seed round , the British startup says its newly released AI agent, Faraday , has outperformed larger, better-known models at a specific task: independently reproducing the findings of published scientific papers without being told the answer in advance.
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