London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai-at-replicating-research/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260822/i12.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260822/p12#a260822p12" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anna Heim / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/22/inherent-founded-by-deepmind-alumni-says-its-ai-teammate-just-outperformed-anthropic-and-openai-at-replicating-research/">London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size.</p>