Neural Alpha HQ was a flurry of activity on Tuesday 18th February as we hosted our first ever breakfast event - a networking morning with two presentations and roundtable discussion. the event was a great success so we'll be running similar events on other topics in the near future.

In a wide ranging interview with ESG Investor recently our CEO James Phare shared his thoughts about the challenges, opportunities and costs & opportunity costs of AI adoption. James covered many points including model choice, use cases, architectural choices and lessons from bespoke consultancy projects and our own Responsible Capital AI ESG product.

The importance (or not) of board independence for performance. And using Responsible Capital Disclosure Assistant for ESG-enhanced smart beta investing approaches

Neural Alpha is working with the Stockholm Environment Institute to build out a knowledge-graph-based connectivity tool that leverages its expertise in large language models (LLMs) and data engineering to add value to heterogeneous data sets of research and other scholarly articles.

Recently we decided to take a brief look at Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) sustainability disclosures using our AI platform Responsible Capital. Tesla are renowned under the leadership of Elon Musk for being unafraid to be different and not follow the crowd and so we wanted to see how well our AI could perform extracting key metrics from PDF format sustainability reports for quantitative comparisons over a period of a few years.

We are thrilled to announce we have joined the World Benchmarking Alliance to support their fantastic work constructing open access benchmarks and enabling positive change for corporates and financial institutions through best-in-class data and analysis.