Seb Johnson

@SebJohnsonUK

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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
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A London AI Lab has just released an agent that outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the task of replicating research. NICE The company, founded by DeepMinders, just emerged from stealth with a $50m seed led by Index. The lab is called Inherent, and it’s just released
Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
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London is not only dominating in many AI applications (@synthesiaIO & @ElevenLabs ) our labs are now going toe to toe with the frontier labs. @inherent_labs is one example. @Orbital_Ind is another. Then there’s labs like @Recursive_SI and @IneffableLabs which between them
Inherent
@inherent_labs
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1/ Today, we introduce Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist that extends the capabilities of coding agents with a layer of scientific intuition. Trained via long-horizon RL, Faraday outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on the task of replicating research papers. 🧵
Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
9h
Europe lets its biggest money piles sit totally unused while US pension funds quietly back half of American tech. @zaya_kadyrova from @aspire11 thinks putting that local cash to work is the only way European tech actually wins.
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
10h
Today, the UK Government has announced an AI bootcamp launched in the North West. It will teach up to 70 young people how to build with AI tools. At the end of the bootcamp these young people will be connected with local SMEs, as well as some large companies, who have
Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUK
12h
Uber has just signed an agreement with a chinese company to deploy 2,000+ driverless robotaxis across 5 European cities. They're already up and running in Zagreb and are now extending the partnership and roll out to four more European cities. In london robotaxis were only