Feng Ji is the founder and CEO of Baiont, a top-performing quant fund in China that uses artificial intelligence to develop trading strategies.
He argues quant trading is fundamentally a computer science task and predicts that quant fund managers failing to embrace AI will not last another three years.
In this conversation with the Financial Times’ Asia Technology Correspondent Zijing Wu, Ji talks about how his team of young computer scientists with no finance background is disrupting the quant trading sector in China and has ambition to go global. He says quant trading is attracting the best AI talents and offers fertile ground for start-ups, such as DeepSeek.