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

UK AI lab Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, has released Faraday, an AI agent designed to replicate scientific research papers. The company says Faraday outperformed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic on this task, positioning it as an AI teammate for researchers.

If validated independently, strong paper-replication performance could make AI more useful in scientific workflows by reducing the time needed to verify and build on prior work. The launch also reflects a broader shift from chatbots toward agentic AI systems that can execute complex, domain-specific tasks.