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Prodigy is the frontier AI trading research lab. We've trained the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance. We've already achieved more than 100% returns in live trading over the course of our YC batch, doubling our capital while major indices were flat. Our founders previously worked at Jane Street, trained frontier AI models at Google DeepMind and shipped cutting-edge AI at Apple to billions of customers. Join us as we use AI to solve the market.
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Prodigy Research — Frontier AI for quantitative finance
Prodigy Research is an AI research lab training the world's best foundation model for quantitative trading. We are trading live in the financial markets and have generated index-beating risk-adjusted returns.
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Michael Wang
Founder/CEO
Founder and CEO at Prodigy Research (YC S26). Previously Senior Researcher at DeepMind, training and shipping AI models powering Google products with billions of monthly users. Before that, worked on a trading desk at Jane Street, one of the most prestigious and profitable trading firms in the world.
Yuhua Wang
Founder/CTO
Founder and CTO at Prodigy Research (YC S26). Previously shipped cutting-edge AI models and agents at Apple to billions of customers. Before that, built Salesforce's flagship AI platform serving hundreds of millions of user requests every day.
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