Inherent Labs built a 27B AI scientist that beats frontier models
Inherent Labs just unveiled Faraday, a 27B agent designed to replicate academic papers. Instead of writing code itself, it decouples scientific hypothesis from implementation by directing GPT-5.5 Codex as its tool, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. It shows that small models steering frontier tools can outmaneuver massive systems in scientific research.