Banbury Road
ActiveAI-nativeBanbury Road is a research lab training civilizations of models, not one bigger model.
What it does
Every model since ChatGPT rides the same scaling law: add parameters, and capabilities improve reliably. Banbury Road trains more models instead, delivering frontier capability at a fraction of the cost and memory of big, monolithic SOTA models. The team met as top of the class undergrads at Oxford on an actual road called Banbury. They previous shipped freephdlabor, the first AI system to mass-produce peer-reviewed research published at ICLR 2025.
Its site says now · captured 2026-09-19
Banbury Road — the next scaling law
Banbury Road is a frontier research lab that trains as many models as possible: intelligence that scales by number, not size.
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