Sardine AI Labs debuts fraud foundation model, boosting detection up to 68%, funds researchers $375K
astrange · x · 2026-10-02
Sardine founder soupsranjan launched Sardine AI Labs, an applied research group for financial crime AI built on 6.5B profiled devices and $1.8T in payments. Its first foundation model improved fraud detection accuracy by 68% for a consumer card issuer and 41% for a business card issuer on card programs held out of training. The group is funding 5 independent researchers with $375,000 total, and research spans sequential modeling, transfer learning, adversarial robustness, and explainability.
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