HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks

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HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it does about any single company.

The investment was made through HSBC AM’s flagship venture-capital strategy, although neither side put a number on it.

Model ML’s central bet is that the model itself has stopped being the thing that matters. Rather than tie a firm to one provider, its platform routes each task to whichever AI model is best suited to it, so clients can keep pace with advances across the ecosystem without retraining staff or tearing up the way they already work.

It is a pitch that rhymes with other attempts to build the operating system Wall Street never had, and one that quietly...

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