Inherent Says 27 Billion-Parameter Faraday Beats OpenAI, Anthropic in Paper Replication
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Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 22
Inherent Says 27 Billion-Parameter Faraday Beats OpenAI, Anthropic in Paper Replication
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 22
Summary
Just weeks after a $50 million seed round, London startup Inherent said Faraday independently reproduced published research findings better than OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8.
The edge came from reinforcement learning aimed at teaching “research taste” — choosing worthwhile experiments and designing them well — rather than relying mainly on larger model scale.
Faraday runs on Alibaba-backed Qwen 3.6 with 27 billion parameters and uses OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Codex for coding, reflecting Inherent’s push to build a collaborative AI scientist rather than a full stack.
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and staffed by about 12 people in London’s King’s Cross, plans to expand to 20 to 25 employees by year-end as it pitches itself as a local talent magnet.