DeepMind alumni lab says AI teammate outperforms rivals at research replication

Inherent, a British AI lab founded by former DeepMind researchers, has released an AI agent called Faraday, according to TechCrunch. The company reports that Faraday outperformed AI systems from Anthropic and OpenAI on a benchmark measuring the ability to replicate published scientific papers.

TechCrunch describes Faraday as a “teammate,” per Inherent’s own framing, rather than a fully autonomous researcher. The lab’s founders bring backgrounds from DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI research organization known for work including AlphaFold and AlphaGo.

Per the report, replication of research findings is presented by Inherent as a meaningful proxy for broader research capability. The ability to reliably reproduce an experiment’s methods and results is a foundational task in the scientific process, one that underpins verification of published claims before further work builds on them.

The claims come from Inherent itself, as relayed by TechCrunch; the article does not indicate independent verification of the benchmark results by a third party. No further methodological detail, such as the size or composition of the paper set used for testing, is included in the available summary.

The development places Inherent alongside Anthropic and OpenAI as labs actively pursuing AI systems aimed at scientific research tasks, an area increasingly framed across the industry as a proving ground for advanced AI capability.