Inherent Labs unveils Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist that beats Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on paper replication
ChengleiSi · x · 2026-08-15
Inherent Labs today introduced Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist that extends coding agents with scientific intuition via long-horizon RL. It outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on replicating research papers. The release is praised as a rare instance of a startup publishing solid science rather than PR fluff.
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