The article reports that AI-managed ETFs from FinQ, launched in February, are up 25.35% and 23.98%, versus 11.0% for the S&P 500 over the same period, according to Reuters. Two Pacer ETFs that rely only on AI are up 10.34% and 10.33% since their early May launch, compared with 5.8% for the S&P 500. In Rallies' AI Arena, where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok each manage a $100,000 portfolio aimed at beating the S&P 500, ChatGPT's portfolio is up 75.6% since March, though Rallies says it is still too early to draw conclusions. The article also ranks the 10 stocks in ChatGPT's portfolio by the number of hedge fund investors, and cites a January paper finding that AI-written trading signals raised the Sharpe ratio, a measure of return per unit of risk, by 22% to 49%.
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