Inherent emerges from stealth with $50M to reimagine AI-native scientific discovery
Inherent emerged from stealth with a $50M seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures to develop Faraday, an AI system designed to reimagine scientific discovery by enabling open-ended human-AI collaboration on unsolved research problems.
London-based AI lab Inherent has emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures, aiming to fundamentally reimagine how scientific discovery works in the age of AI.
Founded by DeepMind alumni Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, and Louis Kirsch, alongside Kaloyan Aleksiev from Reka AI and Microsoft, the team brings together expertise in cooperative AI, infrastructure, and policy. Collins previously worked on AI policy at the Biden White House, and former UK government AI advisor Matt Clifford serves as an advisor.
The lab is developing Faraday, an AI system designed to enable humans and self-improving AI to collaborate on open-ended scientific exploration—targeting the unknown-unknowns that produced breakthroughs like penicillin and the GPU. Rather than plugging AI into existing scientific workflows, Inherent wants to rewrite the scientific method from first principles.
Inherent is structured as a public benefit corporation, with ethics and governance embedded in its founding mission.
Ellie Ramirez-Camara is the News Editor at Data Phoenix, where she writes the daily AI newsdesk — covering model releases, research, funding rounds, and policy across the AI and machine-learning industry. She tracks announcements from labs and startups alike and distills them into clear, source-linked reporting for practitioners.
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