Faraday AI Scientist: 27B model replicates papers, beats Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5

gleech · x · 2026-08-15

inherentlabs introduced Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist trained via long-horizon RL, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on replicating research papers. However, commentator dhadfieldmenell argues that replicating papers is not the same as novel research, as the latter requires taste.

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