London AI Lab Inherent Exits Stealth With $50M Seed; Faraday Agent Outperforms Frontier Labs at Paper Replication

London-based Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni including chief scientist Edward Hughes, emerged from stealth with a $50M seed round. The lab says its Faraday agent outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at independently reproducing findings from published scientific papers.

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London-based Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind alumni including chief scientist Edward Hughes, emerged from stealth with a $50M seed round.
The lab says its Faraday agent outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at independently reproducing findings from published scientific papers.

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The Faraday agent runs on Qwen 3.6 (27B) and uses OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Codex for coding tasks. The team is currently a dozen employees in King's Cross and plans to grow to 20-25 by year-end.

This breakthrough in automated scientific paper replication could accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by making it easier to verify and build upon existing research, addressing one of science's most pressing challenges: reproducibility.