London-based startup Inherent, founded by former DeepMind researchers, has unveiled its new AI agent named Faraday, which successfully outperformed much larger artificial intelligence models in reproducing published scientific studies.
What makes Faraday’s performance particularly notable is that it operates on a comparatively compact open model with just 27 billion parameters, outperforming frontier systems from heavyweights like Anthropic and OpenAI.
The company utilizes reinforcement learning techniques to instill ‘research taste’ into the system, with the ultimate goal of developing autonomous scientific agents capable of contributing meaningfully across various research fields.
- Inherent’s Faraday agent outperformed OpenAI and Anthropic models.
- It runs on a smaller 27-billion parameter model.
- The startup was founded by former Google DeepMind researchers in London.
- The long-term goal is building autonomous agents for primary research.
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