Pioneers of AI How AI is reshaping Wall Street
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Apr 1, 2026 Maithra Raghu, co-founder and CEO of Samaya AI, builds AI agents for high-stakes finance. She discusses bringing agentic systems to Wall Street. Conversation covers making reliable finance AI, translating macro themes into actionable analysis, personalized agent workflows, and how agents will reshape analyst roles and create new opportunities.
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Better AI Requires More Human Oversight
- As AIs grow more capable, Maithra Raghu predicts we will need more humans in the loop to provide judgment frameworks.
- She likens agent handoffs to ML overnight runs where human setup and oversight determine success.
Why Samaya Was Founded
- Maithra left Google Brain after ten years to build Samaya because she saw LLMs finally enable real-world impact.
- She named Samaya (Sanskrit for time) to reflect the mission of giving people back time and insight for investment decisions.
Benchmarks Miss Real Financial Complexity
- Benchmarks in finance are often stylized single-answer tests that fail to reflect messy, ill-formed real-world questions.
- Samaya built a Criteria Eval rubric to grade answers across multiple axes rather than a single numeric correctness check.