AI x Investing: Less hype, more alpha - Tech Talk by BAM

The Applied AI Team at Balyasny Asset Management & MIT CSAILWednesday, March 4 at Noonin CSAIL (32-G449) KIVA seminar roomFood, refreshments, and swag will be provided.RSVP with BAM if you plan to attendIntended Audience: Students who are interested in machine learning, NLP, systems engineering, quantitative finance, or the intersection of AI and real-world decisionmaking. Whether you’re building models, optimizing infrastructure, or curious about how AI is actually used in finance — this talk is for you.Featured Speakers from BAM:
Peter Anderson (Head of Applied AI Research)
Charlie Flanagan (Chief AI Officer)
Dima Tymofieiev (Senior Research Engineer) 
Discussion Topics:
The real state of AI in investing: where it delivers today, where it falls short, and how we separate hype from impact in live investment workflows.
How we design and deploy production AI systems at a multi-strategy hedge fund, including live demos of tools used by BAM portfolio managers.
A first look at our ICML-submitted research, “Global Merger-Arbitrage Forecasting with Language Models,” showcasing a multi-agent LLM system that forecasts M&A deal outcomes and supports a multi-billion-dollar merger-arb strategy.
Ongoing work on making LLMs fast, cheap, and scalable in the real world, from inference efficiency and infrastructure choices to deployment in high-stakes environments.
About BAM: Balyasny Asset Management is a diversified global investment firm founded by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O’Malley in 2001. With over $32.2 billion* in assets under management, BAM employs more than 2,000 people globally. Balyasny’s mission is to deliver to its investors consistent, uncorrelated returns in all market environments.Applied AI at BAM: Our Applied AI team builds and deploys AI systems that directly supportinvestment decision-making across strategies and asset classes. Join us for a candid, hands-on session on what it looks like to apply AI at the frontier of finance.