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.
Team
Michael Wang
Co-founder, CEO
Trained SoTA foundation models including Gemini 3.1 Pro as a senior researcher at Google DeepMind. Previously worked at Jane Street, one of the world's most successful trading firms, where he held a Series 57 securities trader license.
Google DeepMind·Jane Street Capital
Yuhua Wang
Co-founder, CTO
Built cutting-edge AI at Apple serving models and agents to billions of users across the world. Previously scaled the flagship AI platform at Salesforce to millions of queries per day.
Apple·Salesforce
Built
SoTA in live trading.
Our proprietary trading model and agent harness outperform Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol on trading and financial-reasoning tasks.
Performance
Up +140% over our YC batch on delta-neutral strategies.
Our live systems more than doubled our capital over our YC batch, while major indices were flat or down. Thanks to our rigorous and comprehensive risk controls, we’ve never had a down week.
Why now
Going after the largest TAM on Earth.
Trading firms generated hundreds of billions in profit last year, and this number is growing quickly YoY. Global equities markets now exceed $150 trillion in capitalization, with average daily volume in U.S. equities growing more than 40% annually.