Quant trading is the one I know the best because I’ve been a quant trader. There are real skills that are required, other than just having great trading strategies or w/e but they can all be hired for. It’s also hard to overstate how many traders work at these labs. I think OAI and Anthropic probably have more former quants than any trading firm currently has. They can hire a lot of other necessary skills. They already have SWEs. I think the labs could spin up internal trading firms that are profitable, using their frontier AI, in under a year and be making $1B or more, profitably (after all expenses, including compute, salaries, etc.)
Quant trading is the one I know the best because I’ve been a quant trader. There are real skills that are required, other than just having great trading strategies or w/e but they can all be hired for. It’s also hard to overstate how many traders work at these labs. I think OAI and Anthropic probably have more former quants than any trading firm currently has. They can hire a lot of other necessary skills. They already have SWEs. I think the labs could spin up internal trading firms that are profitable, using their frontier AI, in under a year and be making $1B or more, profitably (after all expenses, including compute, salaries, etc.)