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Man Group's AI Token Spend Jumps 86x as Autonomous System Generates Trading Signals

July 9, 2026 at 07:00 EDT

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Man Group, one of the world's largest listed hedge fund managers, has revealed that its in-house agentic AI workflow "AlphaGPT" is generating trading signals, several of which have passed the firm's investment committee and entered live deployment. Its LLM-related token spending has risen 86-fold so far this year.

July 2026 · Man Group

Agentic AI Is Now Writing Live Trading Signals

One of the world's largest hedge fund managers says its in-house workflow AlphaGPT generates investment hypotheses, codes them, backtests, and produces signals — several of which have passed the investment committee and entered live trading. Its LLM token spending has jumped 86× year-to-date.

The 86× surge in LLM token spending this year

1×

Start of year

86×

Year-to-date

Rising API usage reflects AI moving from experiment to firmwide production use.

$135M+

Committed to AI, data & technology in 2025

2023

First experiments — now scaled firmwide

Live

Several AI signals now in live deployment

How AlphaGPT works, end to end

Generate
hypotheses

→

Write & run
backtests

→

Produce
signals

→

Committee &
live trading

Every AI idea must clear the same statistical, risk and economic-rationale thresholds as a human's — with human-in-the-loop oversight mandatory.

Promising

Explores dozens of concepts in minutes — days of human work
Tests subtle, non-obvious factor relationships at scale
Validation stages guard against hallucinations and p-hacking

Caution

Cannot yet run unsupervised; heavy human validation needed
No public third-party audit or live alpha metrics
Skeptics see an overlay on existing backtesting, not "true AI alpha"

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