London-based AI lab Inherent emerges from stealth with $50m raise

A London-based AI lab, founded by DeepMind, Microsoft and White House alumni, has come out of stealth, emerging with a $50m raise and a pledge to try to “write the playbook for AI-native science”.

The $50m seed round in Inherent was co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures.

The AI lab is building Faraday (named after the famous scientist Michael Faraday), an AI system that, it says, allows humans and self-improving AI to work together and tackle what it says are some of the hardest problems in science.

Co-founders Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes and Louis Kirsch previously worked at DeepMind, while another co-founder Kaloyan Aleksiev worked at Reka AI and Microsoft.

Collins has also worked at the White House on AI policy under president Biden.