Former employee of DeepMind co-founded Inherent; AI launches scientific research; AI acts as an agent
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Inherent claims that its research AI agent Faraday outperforms some larger models such as OpenAI and Anthropic in paper reproduction tasks. The company has recently completed a $50 million seed round of financing.
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伦敦 AI 初创公司 Inherent 开始披露其产品进展。这家公司由 Google DeepMind 前员工创办,数周前刚结束隐身运营并宣布完成 5000 万美元种子轮融资。如今,公司称其新发布的 AI 代理 Faraday,已在一项科研任务中超过 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的更大模型。

Faraday 的测试任务并不是聊天或通用问答,而是在事先不知道答案的情况下,独立复现已发表科学论文的研究结果。Inherent 认为,这类任务接近科研训练中的基础能力,也能检验模型是否具备选择实验方向和设计实验步骤的能力。

对比对象是更大模型

公司称,Faraday 在这项任务中的对比对象包括 Anthropic 的 Claude Opus 4.8 和 OpenAI 的 GPT-5.5。与这些前沿大模型相比,Faraday 运行所依赖的是参数规模更小的 Qwen 3.6,参数量为 270 亿。

Inherent 强调,评估标准不只是结果是否正确,还包括模型是否具备“研究判断力”。按公司的说法,这意味着系统不仅要复现实验结果,还要知道哪些实验值得做,以及应当如何设计。

训练重点放在强化学习

Inherent 联合创始人兼首席科学家 Edward Hughes 表示,公司更看重的是构建方法,而不只是跑赢其他模型。为此,团队没有主要依赖对科研流程的规则化学习,而是更多使用强化学习,让系统通过奖励机制学习哪些结果和实验路径更有效。

公司押注,这种训练方式更适合其长期目标,即构建能够参与多个科学领域研究的 AI 科学家代理。Hughes 表示,团队希望系统像研究同事一样,能主动提出新实验,并反馈结果,而不是只给出迎合用户预期的回答。

在工具选择上,Inherent 也没有试图把所有能力都自行开发。公司称,Faraday 在编程环节会调用 OpenAI 的 GPT-5.5 Codex,而不是使用自研编码工具。按其说法,这更接近真实科研人员使用现成软件协作的方式。

完成融资后继续扩张

Inherent 目前团队规模约 12 人,员工都在伦敦 King’s Cross 办公。Hughes 表示,公司计划在今年年底前把人数扩大到 20 至 25 人。

他同时提到,英国常见的“garden leave”做法会限制离职员工在数月内加入或创办竞争公司,这会影响人才流动。Hughes 对 TechCrunch 表示,自己也曾受到这一问题影响。

随着公司推进招聘,Inherent 可能吸引更多有意离开 DeepMind 的研究人员加入。对这家刚完成融资的初创公司来说,Faraday 的公开亮相,既是产品展示,也是其争夺 AI 科研人才和资本关注的一次信号释放。

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