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

Inherent, an AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, claims its AI agent, Faraday, outperformed larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI in replicating research. Faraday, utilizing a comparatively tiny Qwen 3.6 model with just 27 billion parameters, not only replicated results but also demonstrated "research taste." This achievement is significant given that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 are much larger, frontier-scale systems, suggesting efficiency and advanced capabilities from Inherent's smaller model.