The $18 billion hedge fund plans to launch the strategy later this year, using hundreds of AI agents for research while keeping humans in charge of final trading decisions.
Magnetar Capital, which manages $18 billion, plans to launch a new fund later this year that replaces human research analysts with hundreds of AI agents used for idea generation, stock analysis and trend forecasting. The strategy was built by AI quant head Trevor Mottl and will remain under human control at the execution stage, with people retaining final trading authority. The fund is described as long-biased and focused mostly on longer-term positions, with only a small allocation to millisecond signals, pointing to a model that uses AI to expand research capacity rather than fully automate investment decisions.