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September 18, 2026

Inside London's weirdest neolab

Inherent was founded by DeepMind alumni and has been backed with $50m from Index and Radical


Inherent cofounders (L-R): Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan Aleksiev, Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes. Image provided by Inherent.

Entering Inherent's King’s Cross office, visitors are greeted by a sign: “Recording in progress”.

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Inherent manifesto. Source: Inherent website.
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Inherent's office door. Source: Inherent.
Inherent's office door. Source: Inherent.
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Graph depicting Faraday outperforming frontier lab models. Source: Inherent's website.
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A headshot of Matt Clifford
Entrepreneurs First founder Matt Clifford.
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Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis. Source: Google
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Maya Dharampal-Hornby

Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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