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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- fool.com ↗ · Aug 2026
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