RavenPack and WorldQuant Announce AI-Powered Data Competition, Accelerating Financial Innovation

“Data Creation Challenge” Powered by RavenPack’s Bigdata.com Brings Institutional-Grade Data and Global Research Community Together Through the WorldQuant BRAIN Platform

RavenPack, the AI decision infrastructure provider for financial enterprises, and WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm, announced the launch of the “Data Creation Challenge.” With participation taking place exclusively on WorldQuant BRAIN, a web-based simulation platform fueled by data and technology, across the platform’s global research consultant community who have met rank thresholds and passed background checks, this six-week competition is designed to advance education in AI-driven financial research.

This initiative combines data from Bigdata.com, RavenPack’s AI-native platform delivering decision-grade financial intelligence, with WorldQuant BRAIN, which enables registered consultants to build and submit alphas^[1] for potential compensation.

“Financial innovation accelerates when high-quality data and modern infrastructure are accessible to researchers everywhere,” said Armando Gonzalez, CEO and Founder of RavenPack. “This initiative is about education and AI enablement, showing how institutional-grade intelligence can be explored responsibly and creatively by a global research community.”

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Transparent Participation, Protected Intelligence

The competition is guided by a clear principle: transparent participation, protected intelligence. The campaign is designed as an educational showcase of how datasets are built, how unstructured financial information becomes research-ready, and how collaborative data science workflows operate in practice, while fully protecting individual models, signals, and proprietary methodologies.

Participants will use RavenPack’s open Search API via WorldQuant BRAIN to access data on Bigdata.com to build datasets from unstructured financial content. Throughout the competition, high-level insights will be shared.

“The world is at a fascinating inflection point: with the proliferation of data and AI, we’re reaching a place where you can quantify almost anything,” said Nitish Maini, Chief Strategy Officer at WorldQuant. “By powering innovation in dataset creation, this competition is a natural extension of the initiatives we’re always looking to pursue as we seek to amplify the BRAIN platform and empower our thousands of consultants worldwide.”

Expanding Access to Institutional-Grade Infrastructure

Updates and details regarding the “Data Creation Challenge”, such as the competition overview and timeline, educational materials, and weekly highlights of creative data engineering approaches and community-level learning themes will be hosted on Bigdata.com.

Overall, the competition reflects a shared commitment by RavenPack and WorldQuant to:

• Promote responsible AI-driven research;
• Expand global access to high-quality financial data;
• Encourage experimentation in structured data engineering; and
• Support the next generation of quantitative researchers.

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