Inherent said its AI agent, Faraday, outperformed larger models such as Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 in independently replicating research results from published scientific papers. Faraday runs on a Qwen 3.6 model with only 27 billion parameters, while its competitors' models are much larger. The company aims to build AI capable of discovering new scientific knowledge and believes paper replication is an important step toward achieving this goal.