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Former DeepMind researcher Louis Kirsch launches Inherent Labs with $50 million to build recursively self-improving AI agents

Index Ventures and Radical Ventures led the seed funding.

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Kaloyan Aleksiev@kallyaleksiev

Excited to announce @inherent_labs, which I'm co-founding with @tantumscollins, @edwardfhughes, and @LouisKirschAI. Inherent is an AI lab reinventing the AI research factory and designing compute infra with AI as a first-class citizen. Website + roles: http://inherentlabs.ai

Inherent@inherent_labs

We’re excited to introduce Inherent, a lab designed from scratch to build AI agents that discover new knowledge.

The coming era of machine-driven scientific inquiry demands a new kind of research institution and a new kind of AI.

To achieve our mission, we live within the experiment, recursively self-improving the entire research organisation. We investigate questions including:

- What does ‘AI taste’ look like in the sciences, and how can we build an institution that embraces this new aesthetic of discovery? - What new kinds of human-machine teaming will make the most of AI that can truly innovate? - How can we build recursive self-improvement at the collective level that continually increases human agency over outcomes?

We have just closed a $50m seed round led by @IndexVentures and @radicalvcfund, with participation from other outstanding investors including NVentures (@nvidia's venture capital arm), @buildexante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic, @MythosVentures, Charlie Songhurst, @chalfs, @jluan, @dwarkesh_sp, @Thom_Wolf, @j_foerst and @maxjaderberg. We are advised by @matthewclifford.

Inherent is a Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in London.

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Matt Henderson@matthen2

Can LLMs learn research taste? Be creative? How do you evaluate a model’s ability to self improve? How would you build a company where a self-improving AI agent helps grow the business and improve itself? Kally is working on some super interesting stuff @inherent_labs

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Alice Bentinck@Alicebentinck

Delighted to be backing @inherent_labs - an incredible team working on an important mission

Inherent@inherent_labs

We’re excited to introduce Inherent, a lab designed from scratch to build AI agents that discover new knowledge.

The coming era of machine-driven scientific inquiry demands a new kind of research institution and a new kind of AI.

To achieve our mission, we live within the experiment, recursively self-improving the entire research organisation. We investigate questions including:

Inherent is a Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in London.

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Louis Kirsch@LouisKirschAI

After automating AI research with @SchmidhuberAI and building AI Scientists at DeepMind, now comes the real experiment: the institution itself.

Excited to co-found @inherent_labs: the recursively self-improving lab for scientific AI. http://inherentlabs.ai

Inherent@inherent_labs

We’re excited to introduce Inherent, a lab designed from scratch to build AI agents that discover new knowledge.

The coming era of machine-driven scientific inquiry demands a new kind of research institution and a new kind of AI.

To achieve our mission, we live within the experiment, recursively self-improving the entire research organisation. We investigate questions including:

Inherent is a Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in London.

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Jordan Schneider@jordanschneider

@tantumscollins @kallyaleksiev @edwardfhughes @LouisKirschAI CHINATALK LAUNCH POD OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN

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Jeff Clune@jeffclune

@LouisKirschAI @SchmidhuberAI @inherent_labs Congrats!

Louis Kirsch@LouisKirschAI

After automating AI research with @SchmidhuberAI and building AI Scientists at DeepMind, now comes the real experiment: the institution itself.

Excited to co-found @inherent_labs: the recursively self-improving lab for scientific AI. http://inherentlabs.ai

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Roberta Raileanu@robertarail

@LouisKirschAI @SchmidhuberAI @inherent_labs Congrats and best of luck!

Louis Kirsch@LouisKirschAI

After automating AI research with @SchmidhuberAI and building AI Scientists at DeepMind, now comes the real experiment: the institution itself.

Excited to co-found @inherent_labs: the recursively self-improving lab for scientific AI. http://inherentlabs.ai

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Jeff Clune@jeffclune

@edwardfhughes @inherent_labs @kallyaleksiev @LouisKirschAI @tantumscollins Congrats!

Edward Hughes@edwardfhughes

Proud to announce the launch of @inherent_labs. We’re reinventing the scientific research factory for the age of AI agents.

I’m joined by co-founders @kallyaleksiev, @LouisKirschAI and @TantumSCollins; all are deeply technical operators.

Time to live within the experiment.

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CLS@ChengleiSi

@edwardfhughes @inherent_labs @kallyaleksiev @LouisKirschAI @tantumscollins Huge congrats, Edward!! Excited to see what you guys build!!

Edward Hughes@edwardfhughes

Proud to announce the launch of @inherent_labs. We’re reinventing the scientific research factory for the age of AI agents.

I’m joined by co-founders @kallyaleksiev, @LouisKirschAI and @TantumSCollins; all are deeply technical operators.

Time to live within the experiment.

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TheBlackHack@BlackHackOfDoom

@LouisKirschAI @SchmidhuberAI @inherent_labs The original Robot Scientist project was established 2004 by Ross King and academics at the Universities of Manchester, and elsewhere. Two were built, Adam and Eve, capable of generating hypotheses and selecting and carrying out experiments to prove them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist

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Mikayel Samvelyan@_samvelyan

@edwardfhughes @inherent_labs @kallyaleksiev @LouisKirschAI @tantumscollins Congrats, Ed. Looking forward to seeing what you're going to build!

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Roberta Raileanu@robertarail

@edwardfhughes @inherent_labs @kallyaleksiev @LouisKirschAI @tantumscollins Congrats and best of luck!

Edward Hughes@edwardfhughes

Proud to announce the launch of @inherent_labs. We’re reinventing the scientific research factory for the age of AI agents.

I’m joined by co-founders @kallyaleksiev, @LouisKirschAI and @TantumSCollins; all are deeply technical operators.

Time to live within the experiment.

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Matt Henderson@matthen2

@kallyaleksiev @inherent_labs @tantumscollins @edwardfhughes @LouisKirschAI You will be the one to train a model that can implement async grpo with no bugs, or at least train one that trains one to do that

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Alok Bishoyi@alokbishoyi97

congrats on the launch @LouisKirschAI / @inherent_labs !

at @evo__hq have been building open source stack for continual / self improving systems as well. would love for you to check us out and see if there's somewhere we could collab. expecting great things from you folks !

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Laura Ruis@LauraRuis

@LouisKirschAI @SchmidhuberAI @inherent_labs Congrats!!

Louis Kirsch@LouisKirschAI

After automating AI research with @SchmidhuberAI and building AI Scientists at DeepMind, now comes the real experiment: the institution itself.

Excited to co-found @inherent_labs: the recursively self-improving lab for scientific AI. http://inherentlabs.ai

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