
The Aiera Lift: Measuring the Value of Financial Data Across Foundation Models
ArticlesLarge language models are increasingly becoming the reasoning layer for financial research. But even the strongest models face a fundamental limitation: they can only answer from what it already knows or can retrieve.
That creates a serious…

Introducing the Aiera Leaderboard: A Research-Centric Benchmark for Financial LLMs
ArticlesGeneral-purpose AI leaderboards can tell us a great deal about a model’s reasoning, language, and broad knowledge capabilities. What they do not tell us is how effectively that model can answer real, institutional-grade financial research…

Watch Claude and Aiera Bring Real-Time Intelligence to Investment Workflows
ArticlesIn this short demo, Anthropic’s Claude showcases its powerful new integration with Aiera, bringing conversational AI directly into hedge fund, private equity, and investment banking workflows. Watch how analysts can move from market signal…

DeepSeek’s R1 Release: Separating Signal from Noise
ArticlesAn Industry in Transition...
[Written by Jacqueline Garrahan, Director of Machine Learning at Aiera | February 4, 2025]
The recent release of DeepSeek's R1 model has sparked considerable discussion in both Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Perceived…

Aiera Year End Language Model Benchmarking Review 2024
ArticlesThis week, Google released their Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental model ahead of the 2.0 official release. It represents for us another opportunity to understand how the language model landscape is evolving, with this one in particular offering…

Aiera Launches Finance-Focused LLM Leaderboard
Articleswe plan to expand this benchmark

Lessons in Benchmarking: Aiera’s Earnings Call Summaries
ArticlesEvaluating large language models (LLMs) on generative tasks can be complicated...
As an example, different phrases can have equivalent meaning:
The cat jumped onto the windowsill.
The feline leaped onto the window ledge.
And…

CTO Letter from Bryan Healey, Co-Founder of Aiera – July 18, 2024
ArticlesJuly 18, 2024 | Bryan Healey, Co-Founder and CTO of Aiera
As we head into this upcoming earnings season, I wanted to let you know what we have been working on at Aiera, including some key improvements for the busy days ahead:
1. LLM Benchmarking:…

Lessons in Benchmarking: FinQA
ArticlesAt Aiera, we build insights against transcripts and documents using LLMs...
To-date, we’ve combatted errors and hallucinations through human-in-the-loop validation and benchmarking. As we expand into new applications, our requirements…

Evaluating GPT-4o on Financial Tasks
ArticlesEvaluating GPT-4o on Financial Tasks
On May 13, OpenAI announced its new flagship model, GPT-4o, capable of reasoning over visual, audio, and text input in real time. The model has clear benefits in response time and multimodality, offering…