RavenPack's Aakarsh Ramchandani on Unlocking Alpha with NLP and LLMs

INTERVIEW: Five Minutes With… Aakarsh Ramchandani, chief strategy officer at RavenPack | Bigdata.com 

While in NYC last week, I caught up with Aakarsh Ramchandani at Ravenpack’s office in Tribeca.

RavenPack has been developing natural language processing (NLP) products for traders since the early 2000s and recently launched a new platform, Bigdata.com, to combine LLMs with traditional NLP.

I really enjoyed our conversation about the future of AI prediction, which feels like a step toward the world imagined in Minority Report (2002). Instead of predicting crimes, we’re heading toward AI agents alerting investors to meaningful changes as they emerge.

The key word is "meaningful." The goal is to have AI agents that surface what matters - spotting early warning signs in supplier comments, or identifying how changes in one sector, like energy demand, might ripple through seemingly unrelated industries.

Hope you enjoy our chat!

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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