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🎤 A Q&A with Aric Whitewood, CEO of XAI Asset Management, on building an evolving AI hedge fund.
INTERVIEW
Aric Whitewood runs XAI Asset Management, a systematic hedge fund built on self-updating AI that trades with minimal human intervention.
In this interview, we discuss:
How his fund “evolves” with markets through a closed-loop, Bayesian framework that updates relationships as new data arrives while keeping human tuning rare.
His background from aerospace and radar systems to leading early ML at Credit Suisse to launching a fully systematic fund.
Why LLMs should be treated as a tool, not the center of “intelligence,” and where they fit alongside time series models, information theory, and neuro-symbolic methods.
His concerns that too little focus on compute efficiency can inflate costs, encourage synthetic data shortcuts, and lead to…
