Edward Hughes

New Capabilities

As of September 2026: Public face of the Faraday launch, downplaying leaderboard framing

A London startup founded by four former Google DeepMind researchers says its Faraday AI agent reproduced published research findings more accurately than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Faraday runs on Qwen 3.6, a model with just 27 billion parameters — far smaller than the frontier systems it claims to beat.

Updated Sep 13