Using AI to Find Investing Stories with Perscient Co-Founder Ben Hunt
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Barry speaks with Ben Hunt is president and co-founder of Perscient, an AI research firm and software company that pioneered the use of language models and unstructured data analysis for investment strategies. They discussed how emerging narratives move a market, and how AI has revolutionized Perscient's computing power.
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