DeepMind alumni startup's small agent outperforms OpenAI in science
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-08-23
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni, claims its new AI agent Faraday outperformed larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating scientific research. Based on a 27B parameter Qwen 3.6 model, Faraday independently reproduced findings from published papers without being given the answers in advance.
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