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Secretive Wall Street Powerhouse Jane Street Seizes the AI Spotlight
Mystery has long shrouded Jane Street, the Wall Street trading giant. Its traders rely on proprietary algorithms, making it hard to understand how the firm generates all its profits. It’s privately owned and only trades with its own money, so its moves are difficult to track. It’s also an unusually flat organization, with no one leader at its helm to speak on business television or serve as its public face.
The firm’s location adds to its enigma. Jane Street occupies a nondescript office building in Brookfield Place across from the World Trade Center, rather than the Greenwich Village street it randomly picked for its name.
Now, as the firm pushes to become an artificial-intelligence powerhouse, it’s edging into the spotlight.
Jane Street has surged in size from a handful of staffers when it was founded 26 years ago to 3,500 employees, and it wants to get much bigger, with plans to recruit more than 500 employees this year. To become a major AI investor and supercharge its trading with the technology, it needs to catch the attention of AI startups and talent.
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