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The Systematic Desk
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Recent Briefings
The tectonic plates of the AI landscape are shifting again. The release of a powerful open-weight model from China is triggering a market-wide repricing of AI infrastructure stocks, while new open-sou…
Two major pillars of the future financial stack hit significant milestones this week. Moonshot AI just dropped its 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, dramatically lowering the cost of frontier capa…
Capital continues to pour into the next generation of trading infrastructure we've been tracking. Alpaca raised $135 million to build an 'agent-first' brokerage, while Citadel Securities made a $400 m…
The foundational tools powering systematic finance are undergoing a dramatic rewrite to cut latency and overhead. From dbt Labs shifting to a Rust-based runtime to Thinking Machines dropping a massive…
The regulatory fragmentation we have been tracking across jurisdictions is beginning to fuse into a transatlantic standard. The US and UK have unveiled a joint 10-point roadmap that effectively export…
We've covered the theoretical alpha of AI agents, but the math is finally becoming public. A new Yale study has quantified the 'AI Premium' in equity markets, analyzing 380 trillion tokens to show exa…
A stark regulatory divergence leads today's Systematic Desk. While China has issued a sweeping ban on all real-world asset tokenization, European central bankers are taking the opposite track—shifting…
Today on The Systematic Desk: Scale AI is rolling out a private dataset for SWE-Bench Pro, proving that top commercial AI models struggle when forced to navigate proprietary codebases. On the digital …
Today on The Systematic Desk, the market for market data itself is being repriced. Databento, founded by an ex-HFT trader, just raised $97 million to challenge Bloomberg's dominance with a pay-per-use…
Today on The Systematic Desk: The AI development stack is moving from specialized experiments into general-purpose engineering. This week's major model updates introduce new primitives for agentic wor…