Inherent says its small Faraday agent beats larger systems at research reproduction

Inherent, a London company founded by former DeepMind researchers, introduced Faraday as an AI research "teammate" on August 22, 2026. The technology press reported the company's benchmark claim that it improved and reproduced research papers better than systems built on larger Anthropic and OpenAI models, despite using a small base model.

Scientific agents are moving from summarisation toward experiment design, code execution and reproducibility workflows.

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