OpenBB: Open-Source Investing

Hey, it’s Matt. And this is AI Street Markets, where I highlight tools connecting AI + investing. This edition:

⚙️ OpenBB the open source investor platform

OPEN SOURCE

In researching AI tools for investors, I've only come across one that's fully open source: OpenBB. And that tends to throw off the financial set.

“They were like, ‘why are you doing this open source? This doesn’t make sense,” Didier Rodrigues Lopes, the company’s founder and CEO, told me. “They just knew that you don’t do things like open source, but they didn’t really know why.”

I was surprised as well. Wall Street hasn’t historically worked this way, which is strange when you think about how much data is freely available. But that’s changing, more and more of the code that runs Wall Street is out in the open.

OpenBB has caught on: it recently passed 100,000 signups and has more than 40,000 stars on GitHub. Open-source software is free and developed by a community of coders.

Didier’s diverse background is in engineering and c…