Building ChatGPT for Finance — Joseph Kim, OpenAI's Head of Financial Services
About this episode
From the show’s notesWhat does it take to build AI for finance on top of a general-purpose model?
Joseph Kim, who leads work on ChatGPT for Financial Services at OpenAI, joins swyx and Richard at AI Engineer New York to discuss the decisions behind the product: training financial reasoning into a shared model, connecting market data, and building workflows financial professionals can review and trust.
Read the show’s notes in full
Joseph explains why OpenAI bundled financial data even when connectors already existed, what startups can build with the same plugin primitives, and why human taste and expert judgment are hard to measure. The conversation moves from analyst workflows and review chains to investment ideas and the problem of building useful financial evaluations.
Chapters
Joseph’s AI Engineer keynote: youtube.com/watch
ChatGPT for Financial Services:
openai.com/index/introducing-ch…
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