Frontier AI models beat human analysts at earnings prediction for the first time
maithra_raghu · x · 2026-10-09
New research from Samaya (with Maithra Raghu) shows frontier AI models outperforming human experts on financial prediction for the first time.
- The team built a finance-specific prediction harness giving models comprehensive, point-in-time financial information at parity with human experts
- Evaluated on the challenging task of earnings surprise prediction across 456 Q2 earnings releases
- Latest frontier models (Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Astra) with Samaya's harness meaningfully beat analyst consensus on revenue, even outperforming a stronger bias-corrected human baseline
- Prediction error declines clearly with model capability
The authors call this an inflection point for AI in finance, arguably the largest domain of knowledge work.
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