This is the kick-off for our 10th 'Behind The Cloud' series.
AGI for investments – How It Will Look and How It Will Change Markets
In this brand new series, we explore how artificial intelligence in investing could evolve beyond today’s narrow, task-specific applications toward systems that resemble Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in function - not in science-fiction form, but as autonomous, adaptive, and coordinated decision-making systems operating across assets, data domains, and market regimes. What follows is not a prediction in the strict sense. The future rarely unfolds exactly as imagined. Yet some variant of the trajectory described in this series is highly likely to materialize, and every plausible variant would have a profound impact on capital markets - on how investments are managed, how risks are understood, and how market behavior itself evolves. Rather than focusing on algorithms or short-term performance, this series examines the structural implications of AGI-like systems in investing. We begin by clarifying what AGI means in a financial context and what it does not. From there, we translate the concept into a concrete, experience-based narrative, outline the architectural principles such systems would require, and explore how learning, uncertainty, and risk must be re-thought once decision-making becomes autonomous and continuous. A central part of the series is dedicated to the practical path toward AGI in investments. Over the past eight years, Omphalos & AI Investments have consistently developed AI-driven investment systems - evolving from independent trading agents to coordinated, collaborative intelligence operating at the portfolio level. This experience does not imply that a final destination has been reached. On the contrary, it highlights why AGI in investing is best understood as an evolutionary process, shaped by iteration, failure, and learning in live market environments. Beyond system design, we examine the market-level consequences of AGI-driven investing: changes in market structure, the speed at which inefficiencies disappear, new forms of volatility, and the limitations of traditional risk frameworks. We also address the shifting role of humans, from portfolio managers to designers, governors, and stewards of increasingly autonomous systems, as well as the reasons why many initiatives branded as “AGI” are likely to fail. The purpose of this series is not to advocate a single outcome, but to frame a discussion that investors, managers, and allocators can no longer avoid. As artificial intelligence moves from a supporting tool to an autonomous decision-maker, the fundamental rules of investing begin to change. Understanding this transition, before it fully unfolds, may prove to be one of the most important challenges for the next decade.
Next week we will start with the first chapter of this series: "AGI in Capital Markets — What It Is (And What It Isn’t)"
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