The bitter lesson of context metadata

Stop adding business logic to your datasets.

Stop adding business logic to your datasets.

From weekend POC to production: the 24-month gap nobody talks about.

How I quickly hot-swap my financial agent with different LLM providers - fully open source.
A few weeks ago, we were at the HQ of one of our largest clients (close to 70bn AUM) for a week and although I had this post in draft for a couple of months, these words resonate even more with me now as we experienced this FDE work first-hand.
In the world of hedge funds, everyone's talking about AI. But recently, Ken Griffin, one of the industry's most respected voices, made a bold claim: generative AI isn't delivering alpha for hedge funds. Instead, it's mainly boosting workflows and productivity.
He's not entirely wrong but he's not telling the whole story either.
Here's the thing: the problem isn't that AI lacks the capability to find alpha. The problem is that most firms aren't giving AI the environment it needs to succeed.

How the explosion of data and AI is breaking the old financial terminal monopoly and creating space for open, modular, AI-native interfaces that serve users, not vendors.

How the misalignment between data providers and interface builders creates friction for users - the hidden conflict between selling data and serving users in financial software.

Mapping the evolution of AI agents in finance from ChatGPT wrappers to derived data insights - and why the real value is shifting from interfaces to intelligence.

The financial industry's rush to adopt AI without proper data security is creating an 'OceanGate moment' - a disaster waiting to happen. This post explores the risks of reckless AI implementation and charts a safer path forward through on-premise and local model deployment.

At the recent AI Engineering Summit, BlackRock unveiled their Aladdin Copilot - a platform remarkably similar to what we've built at OpenBB, but with a key difference.
While they've invested massive resources into building a closed system, we've created an open-source solution that achieves the same goals: multi-application support, seamless agent integration, explainable AI, and enterprise-grade security. Here's a deep dive into how the world's largest asset manager validated our approach to AI-powered financial workflows.

Key insights from financial services technology leaders on AI adoption, including build vs. buy strategies, data privacy concerns, technology adoption divides, and the challenges of moving from prototypes to production-ready solutions.

It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when. AI will replace analysts' jobs, and we actually believe that's a good thing. In this blog post, we explain why and how you can prepare for this revolutionary change in the world of finance.

Companies will own multiple fine-tuned LLMs/SLMs for specific tasks.

This blog post delves into how our collaboration with MindsDB, Nixtla, LlamaIndex, and Langchain is revolutionizing the financial world. Read on to learn all about the event "The New FinAI Tech Stack" held last week in SF, California.

With the launch of the OpenBB Terminal Pro approaching, we're excited to announce the hiring of Michael Struwig, a Ph.D. with expertise in AI and quantitative finance. Michael will help us to further our AI capabilities, reinforcing our commitment to innovation in the open-source finance space.

Two years of OpenBB: A look back at our achievements and growth in the world of open-source finance.

In this blog post, we discuss the underrated potential of financial chat bots, our collaboration with OptionsFamBot, and why chat bots are becoming increasingly popular.

The future of finance is being reshaped by open source and AI. This post discusses the potential of these technologies in disrupting the financial industry, the advantages of open source, and the role of AI in user interface.

Gamestonk Terminal's latest updates including Docker integration, Jupyter Lab integration, a new Hugo website, and new features. A summary of the recent developments and future plans for the open-source financial tool.
The open source code is available here.

In this blogpost, we introduce Gamestonk Terminal, an open-source project that aims to be a comprehensive tool for financial analysis and stock market research. It includes functionalities for discovering stocks, market sentiment analysis, fundamental and technical analysis, due diligence, prediction techniques, and more.
The open source code is available here.

In this blogpost, I introduce Gamestonk Terminal, an open-source project that aims to be a comprehensive tool for financial analysis and stock market research. It includes functionalities for discovering stocks, market sentiment analysis, fundamental and technical analysis, due diligence, prediction techniques, and more.
The open source code is available here.