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TRUE, BUTBorrowed Engine

It calls GPT-5.5 to do the work

Its own paper says the model calls GPT-5.5 to do the work.

“Faraday, a 27-billion-parameter 'AI Scientist' from Inherent Labs, outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the task of replicating research papers.”

Inherent Labs (Edward Hughes, co-founder and chief scientist), 22 August 2026

Recorded 25 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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6 receipts: 2 support the claim, 3 contradict it, 1 add context. 5 figures on the record, 1 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Contradicts the claimarxiv.org ↗

    Faraday is provided with a frontier coding agent to use as a tool. A wrapper script runs the Codex CLI non-interactively.

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  2. 2Contradicts the claimarxiv.org ↗

    GPT-5.5 in the final stage and for evaluation

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  3. 3Contradicts the claimaiweekly.co ↗

    Faraday is built on a 27-billion-parameter Qwen base and calls OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Codex for coding subtasks.

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  4. 4Contextsuperpowerdaily.com ↗

    The disclosed evaluation includes no numerical scores, named test papers or methodology, limiting what can be concluded from the comparison.

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  5. 5Supports the claimtechcrunch.com ↗

    What was most interesting to us about this was not so much the result of beating those frontier agents

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  6. 6Supports the claiminherentlabs.ai ↗

    a 27B-parameter "AI scientist" agent that outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the task of replicating research

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