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Ex-DeepMind team launches Faraday AI claiming it beats frontier models at paper replication

As of September 2026: Co-led Inherent's seed round

A London startup founded by four former Google DeepMind researchers says its Faraday AI agent reproduced published research findings more accurately than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Faraday runs on Qwen 3.6, a model with just 27 billion parameters — far smaller than the frontier systems it claims to beat.

Updated Sep 13

Frontier AI funding rounds reach unprecedented scale in 2026

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As of May 2026: Participated in Ineffable's seed round; partner Danny Rimer published investing thesis

In April 2026, London AI lab Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation, the largest seed round in European history. The founder, David Silver, is a University College London professor who led Google DeepMind's AlphaGo and AlphaZero, programs that learned board games entirely through self-play.

Updated May 31