AI quant tycoon Alex Gerko hits £16B, ranked 8th on UK rich list with trader-free XTX Markets
新智元 · wechat · 2026-10-18
Alex Gerko, 46, ranks 8th on the Sunday Times 2026 UK rich list with £16.006B, up £64B-equivalent RMB in a year, thanks to XTX Markets — the AI market-making firm he founded in 2015:
- No human traders: 250+ staff, all pricing/risk/execution run by deep-learning models; Gerko owns 75%, zero outside investors.
- Massive compute: 25,000+ GPUs (10K A100s, 10K V100s), 650PB storage, $250B+ daily trading volume; €1B+ self-built data center in Finland.
- Giving back: $50M+ pledged to math-AI open source; the $10M AIMO prize was retired in 2026 as frontier models improved too fast, with funding shifted to Lean FRO, Mathlib Initiative, and SAIR.
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