Medusa at RavenPack's Exponential Summit: Quantamental 2.0

Last week, Medusa founder Petr Merkuryev spoke at RavenPack's Exponential Summit in Málaga, an invitation-only event bringing together senior leaders from investment management, data, and AI.

Petr's session, "Quantamental 2.0: How GenAI Is Collapsing the Divide Between Fundamental and Quant Investing," explored how generative AI is changing the way investment teams work in practice — not just the tools they use.

A central theme of the discussion was the growing importance of context as a source of competitive advantage. As quantitative capabilities become increasingly accessible, differentiation shifts away from models and toward how firms encode judgment, institutional knowledge, and decision-making workflows into AI-enabled systems.

Key takeaways from the session included:

• The traditional separation between quant and fundamental teams is rapidly eroding.
• Speed only creates edge when paired with domain context and judgment.
• New organizational capabilities, often emerging as "context engineering", are becoming critical to scaling AI safely and effectively.

The discussion at the Summit reinforced Medusa's focus on helping investment organizations move from experimentation to execution: embedding AI into real workflows, with governance, explainability, and decision integrity built in.

We'd like to thank RavenPack and the Exponential Summit team for the invitation and the high-quality discussions.

Read more: For a deeper dive into the themes from this presentation, see our detailed blog post: Quantamental 2.0: Context as the New Edge.