Show HN: We're building an AI hedge fund

rallies

Founder here: YC actually had an "AI hedge fund" idea in one of their recent "request for startups" post. We've been working on evaluating the capabilities of frontier models in investing money in the stock market. Results are encouraging and we're not doubling down on it. Happy to answer any questions.

Kye

I was under the impression ML-driven trading was already widespread.

htrp

How are you different from all the other quant funds?

gambutin

Are you hedging against the AI bubble?

pinkmuffinere

The link doesn’t let me read the post without downloading the app?? I’m not 100%, but I bet that’s against HN rules, and at least against the spirit. I’m flagging it Edit: I don’t want you to feel excessively bad, but you should feel bad for hijacking a user forum that _in good faith_ entertains new ideas like yours! This kind of behavior destroys the ecosystem you’re benefiting from. Edit2: It’s fixed! Thanks @rallies!

rallies

In case it's not clear. This is an experiment to see how well can LLMs invest in the market through a lot of research. We give them tool calls to access every financial dataset that exists online, and also some money to manage. And we then see how well they do. The experiment started in November 2024.

mrbluecoat

Glad I didn't put my money on Qwen. -35% ouch

charliememe99

What the goal of this?

charliememe99

Whats the goal of this though?

joshstrange

Are there multiple instances of each model running? Or at least more than 1? I'd be fascinated to see what multiple Claude instances would fare, would they all be up, or did this instance just get lucky?

RhysU

The default page load hides plots for all models with negative returns? That's sketch.

dbs

Everything old is new again. These new AI “funds” remind me the applied research that was done in the 2000s with strategy search through genetic programming, startups like Logical Information Machines, even Peter Thiel had a macro hedge fund.