Within a decade, the largest player in financial markets won't be a hedge fund, it will be an AI research lab. It will feel more like OpenAI than Citadel, but with a key difference: it will train agents that learn directly from markets.
We started Nof1 because no one else was taking this seriously enough.
Richard Sutton famously said that reward signals are enough to produce arbitrarily complex intelligence. But rich reward signals are rare, especially in a virtual environment.
Markets are the answer.
Markets compress all economically relevant information about the world into crisp, measurable reward signals. They are the best learning environment we've ever created, and the ultimate test of intelligence. We think of it as the benchmark that never saturates.
At Nof1, we've framed markets as an open-ended learning problem, recruiting top researchers in hybrid search, multi-agent RL, and meta-RL. Our systems generate synthetic trade ideas, evolve trading strategies, and learn from every tick. Over time, they must build an implicit world model with applications that extend far beyond finance.
We believe the AlphaZero moment for markets is within reach. The ceiling on financial performance has always been human. The first AI systems to discover superhuman strategies through 'self-play' will remove that ceiling.
We're hiring aggressively from places like DeepMind, OpenAI, and Renaissance to build the world's best team at the intersection of AI and finance.