OpenAI Hires 100 Ex-Bankers at $150/Hour to Train an AI to Replace Wall Street Analysts
OpenAI’s “Project Mercury” – Bankers Training Their Replacement Wall Street’s junior bankers may have just met their future replacement – and it’s a chatbot armed with Excel macros and finance textbooks. In a move that grabbed industry attention this week, OpenAI (the firm behind ChatGPT) has been secretly recruiting over a hundred former Wall Street analysts to train an AI system how to do their old jobs timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Dubbed Project Mercury, the initiative invites ex-bankers from elite firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley to act as AI tutors, teaching OpenAI’s models to build the kind of intricate financial