Neel Somani is a quant engineer turned content creator covering power markets, AI infrastructure, and crypto. In this episode of The Hedgineer Podcast, we dig into how the AI boom is reshaping energy markets, how rising compute costs are forcing companies to measure AI ROI, and whether open source models are changing the build vs. buy decision.

About the Guest

Neel Somani is a technologist and researcher focused on the intersection of machine learning, commodities, and formal methods. Formerly a quantitative developer in the power and commodities space, he has recently gained prominence for his work in mechanistic interpretability and his contributions to solving Erdős problems using large language models.

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