Alpha & Agents
Vibhav ViswanathanAgentic AI is rewriting financial services faster than most leaders can read about it. Alpha & Agents is the weekly read on what's actually deployed inside the world's largest asset managers and banks. By Vibhav Viswanathan, co-founder, Pascal AI Labs.
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How Investment Firms Should Think About Model Selection
In Formula 1, the car that looks fastest on Saturday is not always the one that wins on Sunday. That is because the weekend is split into two fundamentally different tests: qualifying and the Grand Prix.
In qualifying, the objective is to...
Getting Up to Speed with AI, Part II: How an Investment Firm Actually Becomes AI-Native
In the last edition of Alpha & Agents, I wrote in detail about how folks working in institutional finance can come up to speed with AI, as an attempt at something like a common curriculum for the technology itself.
The premise underneath a...
Getting Up to Speed with AI: What Investment Professionals Actually Need to Know
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How Investment Firms Actually Deploy AI: Case Studies from Pascal AI Labs
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The Three Infrastructure Problems Institutional Finance Needs to Solve in 2026
On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger, one of NASA’s reusable spacecraft and a centerpiece of its human spaceflight program, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. Among the seven crew members on board was Christa...
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Founder of Pascal AI, building VC-backed AI knowledge workers for asset managers & hedge funds. 10+ years at the crossroads of finance & deep tech. Chicago Booth MBA & IIT KGP alum. Writing on enterprise AI and finance. Email: [email protected]
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