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23 Aug 2026, 3:00 AM	TechCrunch	5.5	Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni that recently raised a $50M seed round, claims its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at independently reproducing findings from published scientific papers. Notably, Faraday runs on Qwen 3.6, a 27-billion-parameter model—far smaller than the frontier systems it claims to beat. Why: If the benchmark holds up under scrutiny, it suggests that for narrow agentic tasks like research replication, a well-prompted 27B model can match or beat frontier-scale models—meaning builders may not need to pay for the most expensive API calls for certain agent workflows. However, this is a self-reported result from a startup promoting its own product, so verify against independent replication before changing your model selection. ai-agents benchmarks small-models research-automation

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23 Aug 2026, 3:00 AM

TechCrunch

5.5

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

Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni that recently raised a $50M seed round, claims its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at independently reproducing findings from published scientific papers. Notably, Faraday runs on Qwen 3.6, a 27-billion-parameter model—far smaller than the frontier systems it claims to beat.

Why: If the benchmark holds up under scrutiny, it suggests that for narrow agentic tasks like research replication, a well-prompted 27B model can match or beat frontier-scale models—meaning builders may not need to pay for the most expensive API calls for certain agent workflows. However, this is a self-reported result from a startup promoting its own product, so verify against independent replication before changing your model selection.