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Millennium employees' new productivity hack: an AI 'twin'

Millennium is offering every employee who wants one a personalized AI agent, the hedge fund announced in a blog post.

Millennium, a $97 billion hedge fund, is introducing a new productivity hack with the help of AI technology. The firm is offering every employee a personalized AI agent, known as a Digital Twin. Each twin has their own identity, permissions, email address, and dedicated environment, separate from their human counterpart. The AI agents are designed to continuously learn from an employee's working style and autonomously handle repetitive tasks such as research and inbox management.

Employees can interact with their twin through email, just as they would with a colleague. Millennium has already deployed over 1,600 AI coworkers across its ranks and is now making them available to all 7,000-plus employees. The Digital Twin program is part of Millennium's latest technology push to further integrate AI into its workforce.

The firm has also formed a partnership with Anthropic to develop an AI-powered digital risk analyst, which will support its risk management teams. Millennium is well-positioned to finance these AI efforts, having recently secured $22 billion in new capital commitments. This new initiative follows the firm's previous investments in AI talent and infrastructure, including the launch of an AI track for its internship program and the establishment of an AI laboratory.

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