Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What Inherent shipped On 14 August 2026, Inherent — also referred to as Inherent Labs, a London-based lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni — introduced Faraday, a 27-billion-parameter agent it describes as an “AI Scientist”. The stated purpose is narrower and more interesting than the label suggests: Faraday is built to replicate scientific research, and Inherent positions that capability as a foundation for open-ended discovery rather than an end in itself. Alongside the model, Inherent released the thing that makes the claim legible. Replica is a benchmark of 310 tasks drawn from 100 machine-learning and AI-for-science papers, spanning natural-language processing, materials science and weather forecasting. Each task hands an agent a paper and asks it to reproduce one of the figures —…
