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Bloomberg reports quantitative trading shops are now competing head-to-head with AI (artificial intelligence) labs for PhD-level researchers, offering first-year pay packages as high as $800,000 and programs like fellowships, university sponsorships and targeted recruiting events. That is noteworthy because it shows money and prestige historically tied to tech labs are flowing into finance, changing where top machine-learning talent chooses to work and how quickly trading firms can build proprietary models.