Jane Street's Google Deepmind hire in Singapore left for another trading firm after 11 months
Quant trading firms are expanding their own AI capabilities while fighting off AI labs like OpenAI that want to poach their talent. Occasionally, firms like Jane Street will hire from AI labs but it doesn't always work out.
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David Bridson joined Jane Street in Singapore just under a year ago as a senior software engineer. Now he has left for Hudson River Trading (HRT), holding the same title and remaining in Singapore for the role.
At Deepmind, Bridson was credited for work on the first iteration of Google's Gemini chatbot, and worked on Genie, project that created generative interactive environments. He left around the time that Deepmind workers were unionizing over the firm's potential involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, but Bridson did not respond to a request for comment at the time as to whether his departure was related.
Both Jane Street and HRT are incredibly bullish on AI. Jane Street is building its own datacentres and says it has tens of thousands of GPUs. Hudson River Trading, meanwhile, has its traders regularly go through $200 in tokens per day, with some extreme users burning through $1k in tokens.
Jane Street is also hiring. In London, it hired Christopher Henry, a Deutsche Bank rates sales director who also spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs. Despite historically working in sales, Henry suggests on LinkedIn that he's joining in a trading role; Jane Street did not respond to a request for comment, but perhaps he will be trading with the help of the firm's developing AI tools.
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