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Inherent's Faraday model can learn to replicate research experiments, with capabilities that compound and could enable AI to advance its own state of the art.

Faraday, a small supervisory model trained on top of frontier models, demonstrates research capabilities that could eventually allow AI systems to design their own experiments and improve themselves. ✦ AI generated

Inherent · Import AI · 2026-08-17 · original ↗

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The skills that allow Faraday to fill in vaguely-specified details may be the very same skills that would allow it to advance the state of the art by designing its own experiment... One might hope that a single post-trained outer agent can track the frontier as better models are released, at least over some time period.

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