How Neemerite Built an Open Source Hedge Fund

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Neemerite is an open-source hedge fund that uses machine learning to model data. Neemerite was founded in 2014 and has raised more than $1 billion so far this year. The firm's CEO, Richard Branson, says the company will be adding a lot of money in 2023 because it did well last year.

Richard Craib is the Founder & CEO of Numerai, a new kind of hedge fund where data scientists around the world collaborate to predict equity returns using artificial intelligence. Richard joins the show to discuss Numerai’s origins, how it embraces the spirit of open source, why it has its own cryptocurrency and MUCH more! Important Links:

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The genesis of Numerai
How and why Numerai gives away its dataset
Getting users to put skin in the game
How Numerai scores users; becoming comfortable with the process
Size limits & leverage
Reactions to Numerai
Numerai’s cryptocurrency
How Numerai differs from Quantopian
Data, optimization & LLMs
“Monopolize intelligence, monopolize data, monopolize money, and decentralize the monopoly”
What could go wrong?
Numerai’s relationship with its data scientists
Could Numerai’s model work in any other industries?
What could go wrong?
“Life is long”
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