Prodigy Research

ActiveAI-native

Training the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance.

What it does

Prodigy is the frontier AI trading research lab. We've trained the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance. We've already achieved more than 100% returns in live trading over the course of our YC batch, doubling our capital while major indices were flat. Our founders previously worked at Jane Street, trained frontier AI models at Google DeepMind and shipped cutting-edge AI at Apple to billions of customers. Join us as we use AI to solve the market.

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Prodigy Research — Frontier AI for quantitative finance

Prodigy Research is an AI research lab training the world's best foundation model for quantitative trading. We are trading live in the financial markets and have generated index-beating risk-adjusted returns.

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