Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Inherent’s AI agent Faraday, built on the 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model, outperformed Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in independently replicating published scientific papers without prior answers. The system was trained using reinforcement learning to develop “research taste,” guiding experiment selection and design, and it leverages OpenAI’s Codex for coding tasks.