Ex-Google techies' AI agent beats OpenAI, Anthropic in reproducing research

London-based startup Inherent, founded by ex-Google DeepMind employees, says its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 models in reproducing published scientific research. Faraday is powered by Qwen 3.6, a much smaller model with only 27 billion parameters. The firm trained the agent using reinforcement learning, a method that rewards AI for good outcomes.