Hedge funds·A1Thesis and market research·Aug 13, 2026

Citadel's agent reproduces 8 weeks of PhD research in 2 hours

Ken Griffin says an internal Citadel system reads finance papers, reimplements the methodology, validates the published results and tests them out of sample in two to three hours, work that took researchers six to eight weeks.

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