--- title: Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI... description: London AI lab Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, announced that its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research | daily.dev og:description: London AI lab Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, announced that its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m1b6C4qaA.png og:image:alt: Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary London AI lab Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, announced that its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at independently replicating findings from published scientific papers. Faraday runs on a much smaller 27-billion-parameter model called Qwen 3.6, relying heavily on reinforcement learning rather than training on how science is conducted. The company, which raised a $50 million seed round after emerging from stealth, uses OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Codex for coding rather than building its own tool, and plans to grow from a dozen employees to 20-25 by year end. Cofounder Edward Hughes also spoke out against the UK's 'garden leave' practice that restricts departing employees from quickly joining competitors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What model size does Inherent's Faraday agent use to outperform Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research papers? Faraday runs on Qwen 3.6, a model with just 27 billion parameters, which is far smaller than the frontier-scale systems it was measured against: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Despite the size difference, Inherent reported that Faraday outperformed both larger models at independently reproducing findings from published scientific papers without being told the answer in advance. _Developers weighing small versus frontier models for agentic tasks can track results like this on daily.dev._ ### Why does Inherent's Faraday agent use OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Codex instead of a custom coding tool? Inherent chose to have Faraday use OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Codex rather than building its own coding tool, reasoning that human scientists similarly rely on existing software instead of building everything from scratch. This lets the London-based lab focus its engineering effort on its core goal of building an AI scientist agent with strong 'research taste' rather than on tooling. _Anyone deciding whether to build or buy AI coding tools can follow how other labs make that trade-off on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking](https://daily.dev/posts/ex-deepmind-researchers-raised-50m-to-build-ai-that-figures-out-which-scientific-questions-are-wort-nbghaxcrv) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Anthropic surges after U.S. ban](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-gpt-5-4-launches-ai-gets-its-own-jobs-report-anthropic-surges-after-u-s-ban-gtnfmmsgo) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#reinforcement-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/reinforcement-learning) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa"},"datePublished":"2026-08-22T19:03:23.228Z","dateModified":"2026-08-24T20:03:57.476Z","description":"London AI lab Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, announced that its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/34fd00858287c9125084aa610fa370ee?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/34fd00858287c9125084aa610fa370ee?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,ai-agents,openai,anthropic,reinforcement-learning","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai--m1b6c4qaa#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What model size does Inherent's Faraday agent use to outperform Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research papers?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Faraday runs on Qwen 3.6, a model with just 27 billion parameters, which is far smaller than the frontier-scale systems it was measured against: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. 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