Dr. Alejandro Lopez Lira has been trying to prompt AI chatbots to beat the market since 2023.
Lopez Lira, an associate professor of finance at the University of Florida, began his project early in the AI boom to see which model could trade stocks to deliver market-beating returns. After almost three years of testing the most popular models, he said he’s got his answer.
“DeepSeek is by far the best trader,” he told Business Insider.
DeepSeek’s portfolio is up 73% since it launched in 2023 and 35% year-to-date. ChatGPT has slightly outpaced DeepSeek since launch, up 78%, but is only up 16% year-to-date. The Grok portfolio has returned 54% since inception and 19% year-to-date.
He said DeepSeek is also beating Claude, though he noted that Anthropic’s chat bot hasn’t been managing a portfolio for as long as the others.
Can DeepSeek beat the market?…
