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Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Will the big labs leave anything for external competition?

This probably killed a thousand startups in this space.

in the early internet you wouldn't see google creating their own news site or facebook building their own animal farm. what happened to platformication of everything?

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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For those in the finance space, are you actually seeing any real AI tools being used? Like for actual operational tasks?

I've really only seen it used for research / exploration thus far. Either for economic research slide deck or for exploring trading hypothesis

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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> We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services

The templates being: pitch builder, meeting preparer, earnings reviewer, model builder, market researcher, valuation reviewer, general ledger reconciler, month-end closer, statement auditor, KYC (Know Your Customer) screener.

Seems pretty scattershot. Reminds me of GPT Store.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Will the big labs leave anything for external competition? This probably killed a thousand startups in this space. in the early internet you wouldn't see google creating their own news site or facebook building their own animal farm. what happened to platformication of everything?

lol these agents are missing the point re. What people actually do in these jobs.

This is an attempt to inflate token generation to fool people into increasing anthropic’s valuation.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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post #3

For those in the finance space, are you actually seeing any real AI tools being used? Like for actual operational tasks? I've really only seen it used for research / exploration thus far. Either for economic research slide deck or for exploring trading hypothesis

Nope If anything firms are pulling back (I know someone closely who works at blackrock).

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Will the big labs leave anything for external competition? This probably killed a thousand startups in this space. in the early internet you wouldn't see google creating their own news site or facebook building their own animal farm. what happened to platformication of everything?

> Will the big labs leave anything for external competition?

No, why would they if they have the choice?

> what happened to platformication of everything?

Business happened. The web works differently from how it used to. The users are different. LLM inference and AI tools is a different core product from search and ads. That, and we have the benefit of hindsight now. Maybe a Google newsroom would've actually been a good idea in 2006 in hindsight, who knows.

Also realistically you could say the same thing about Google Maps and Street View. That probably also killed some startups. Google isn't running a charity for startups.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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post #7
post #3

For those in the finance space, are you actually seeing any real AI tools being used? Like for actual operational tasks? I've really only seen it used for research / exploration thus far. Either for economic research slide deck or for exploring trading hypothesis

Nope If anything firms are pulling back (I know someone closely who works at blackrock).

pulling back as in setting more realistic token budgets, or something more drastic? I'm curious

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope If anything firms are pulling back (I know someone closely who works at blackrock).

pulling back as in setting more realistic token budgets, or something more drastic? I'm curious

Stopped using them altogether in the context of productivity - in essence they’re useless.
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