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

Kwon Crash

Published Aug 22, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

Source: AISource
- DeepMind alumni spin off a lab called Inherent, drop an AI "teammate" named Faraday, and claim it just beat Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating scientific papers. Cool. So we've gone from moonboys promising 100x on a dog coin to AI agents promising to clone peer-reviewed research overnight. Same hustle, fancier chassis. Look, if Faraday can actually reproduce complex papers without hallucinating citations like a Chrome Syndicate forger, that's genuinely useful tech. But every lab claims they beat the big two — until the manifest gets audited and the benchmarks turn out to be cherry-picked. I'll believe it when the replication data holds up under a PoD seal. Until then, file this under "aggressive passive income" for VC portfolios. Where's my cut?