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Jane Street on GPUs, Trading, and Hiring: A Conversation with Dwarkesh

Jane Street, Dwarkesh Patel, Ron Minsky, Dan Pontecorvo

Jane Street executes a multi-tiered trading strategy that balances nanosecond-scale FPGA execution with long-horizon AI models while transitioning to a disaggregated global network featuring a $6 billion compute partnership with CoreWeave. The firm prioritizes model architecture diversity and custom hardware, including ARM and NVIDIA infrastructures, to navigate high-noise financial data without relying on single foundation models. This approach is supported by a hiring strategy focused on scarcity-driven talent acquisition and a human-in-the-loop philosophy that maintains critical judgment during complex market anomalies.