Inherent

“Researchers with AI startup Inherent have published a paper showing how they are building Faraday, an AI scientist model that they hope can develop some taste in terms of research. Faraday is a 27B model that uses a coding agent (OpenAI Codex) as an underlying tool.”

“Faraday using Codex is able to beat standard Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on some replication tasks, exceeding their performance 'on 73% of in-distribution ML tasks, and on 60% of held-out AI-for-science tasks, according to our rubric-based judge.'”