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Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
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Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size.
Key facts
- Here’s the part that should catch an investor’s eye: measured against Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, both much larger, frontier-scale systems the kind who comes back and says: “The reporter
- It plans to grow its headcount to “about 20 to 25” by the end of the year
- 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
- Pictured from left to right: Inherent co-founders Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan Aleksiev, Tantum Collins and Edward Hughes
Summary
Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten relatively little attention. 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. That may sound like a mere party trick given Inherent’s much loftier goal, building AI that can discover new scientific knowledge and not verify old results. Beating other AI systems at the task wasn’t the point, Hughes told TechCrunch; how they got there was.