Inherent emerged from stealth in May 2026 with a mission to build recursively self-improving AI for scientific discovery. The company is incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation and plans to establish a societal-benefit board within six months.
The company's approach emphasizes recursive collective self-improvement at the organisational level, integrating AI advances across research discussions, resource allocation, hardware infrastructure, and learning algorithms.
Inherent is developing general-purpose inventive AI that accelerates research across domains and powers next-generation autonomous labs. The platform, Faraday, aims to combine human scientific research with advanced AI systems to produce novel inventions and innovations.
The company believes that AI's promise lies not in automating science, but in enabling a new kind of collective intelligence that leverages the comparative advantages of humans and machines.
The market for AI-driven scientific discovery is rapidly expanding as foundation models enable new approaches to research across biology, chemistry, materials science, and physics.
Inherent targets a future where AI-native research institutions can recursively self-improve, potentially unlocking breakthroughs that traditional research methods cannot achieve.
Inherent's founding team includes former DeepMind researchers Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, and Louis Kirsch, alongside Kaloyan Aleksiev (ex-Reka AI and Microsoft), bringing deep expertise in frontier AI research and infrastructure.
The company has secured a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA's NVentures and other prominent investors, providing significant capital to pursue its ambitious research agenda.
