PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Kaloyan Aleksiev

Also known as Kaloyan Alekiev, kallyaleksiev

Kaloyan Aleksiev is an AI lab leader and researcher whose work spans multimodal models, evaluation and AI for scientific discovery. He coauthored the 2024 Reka Core, Flash and Edge report and the Vibe-Eval benchmark, and worked at Microsoft and Reka AI, with earlier affiliations at the University of Oxford. In 2025, he co-founded Inherent, a London research lab that emerged from stealth with a $50m seed round in May 2026; its founders' manifesto calls for a new kind of research institution and AI for machine-driven scientific inquiry. As of October 2026, he is Inherent's co-founder and CTO, and his research includes Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist agent for paper replication.

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  1. April 2024

    The Reka Core report

    In April 2024, he coauthors Reka's technical report on Core, Flash and Edge, multimodal language models trained from scratch to process and reason with text, images, video and audio inputs.

  2. May 2024

    The Vibe-Eval benchmark

    In May 2024, he coauthors Vibe-Eval, an open benchmark and framework for multimodal chat models, with 269 visual-understanding prompts, including 100 hard prompts with expert-authored gold responses.

  3. 2025

    Co-founding Inherent

    In 2025, he co-founds Inherent with Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes and Louis Kirsch, a London AI research lab building general-purpose inventive AI to accelerate scientific discovery.

  4. By 2026

    Microsoft and Reka AI

    By 2026, he brings infrastructure experience from his work at Microsoft and Reka AI to Inherent. His earlier affiliations include the University of Oxford.

  5. May 2026

    Inherent emerges from stealth

    In May 2026, Inherent emerges from stealth with a $50m seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Its founders, Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch and Kaloyan Aleksiev, publish the manifesto "Living within the Experiment", which calls for a new kind of research institution and a new kind of AI for machine-driven science.

  6. August 2026

    Faraday and paper replication

    In August 2026, he coauthors "Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research", which introduces Replica, a task space for paper replication, and Faraday, a 27B-parameter AI Scientist agent that uses coding agents as tools. The paper reports that Faraday surpasses Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on held-out replication tasks.

  7. As of October 2026

    CTO of Inherent

    As of October 2026, he is Inherent's co-founder and CTO. The London-based public-benefit AI research lab builds general-purpose inventive AI to accelerate scientific discovery.

  1. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Microsoft. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Microsoft. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Microsoft. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Microsoft. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

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  1. [2404.12387] Reka Core, Flash, and Edge: A Series of Powerful Multimodal Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. [2405.02287] Vibe-Eval: A hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Inherent · Lab Index labindex.fyi. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Inherent - Radical Ventures radical.vc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Inherent: Designing for Discovery | Index Ventures indexventures.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. neolabs.fyi | Inherent information neolabs.fyi. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. London-based AI lab Inherent emerges from stealth with $50m raise - Tech.eu tech.eu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. inherent inherentlabs.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. [2608.13331] Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.