For much of the last decade, the global artificial intelligence conversation has centered on the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Technology companies and investors have poured billions of dollars into the development of systems capable of broad reasoning across disciplines, with leaders such as OpenAI, Meta, and Google pushing the boundaries of generalized AI.
But within enterprise technology and financial markets, another form of AI is quietly gaining momentum—one focused not on understanding everything, but on understanding the specific environments where real-world economic activity actually happens.
