About Us - GAII Institute

About the GAII Institute

Where institutional AI meets investment intelligence

The Generative AI in Investment Institute is a dedicated forum for the practitioners building the AI-native investment stack — investors, researchers, founders, and academics moving generative AI from pilot to production.

Our Mission

A dedicated forum for practitioners building the AI-native investment stack

AI in investing has crossed a threshold. The questions have moved on, from ChatGPT to agents, from pilot to production. Our mission is to advance responsible AI adoption across the investment industry, helping professionals move from experimentation to production, setting transparent standards for how AI tools are evaluated, and building a practitioner community that learns from each other as well as leading voices.

“The questions have moved on — from ChatGPT to agents, from pilot to production.
GAII exists to ask the next question first.“

— GAII Institute, 2026

What we do

Four pillars of the institute

Education, content, benchmarking, events and member perks, built around one goal: helping investment professionals adopt AI that works.

Education

Practical courses for investment professionals, from getting started with Claude to an introduction to institutional-grade AI platforms and building your own AI research agents. We offer free and premium courses as well as custom programs built for individual firms and teams.

Content & Community

Our newsletter, founder interviews, product spotlights, and case studies, plus a members’ community built around contribution, where sharing a workflow or evaluating a tool earns access.

Benchmarking and Market Intelligence

Benchmarking and market-intelligence services that help investment decision-makers evaluate solutions with confidence, whether they’re choosing an AI tool, assessing an AI business, or reviewing their own AI strategy.

Events & Member Perks

Our annual GAIIM conference, plus free and member-only online and in-person events throughout the year, along with exclusive perks like trials of leading AI investing solutions, so members can discover, evaluate, and adopt what actually helps.

Our Story

How we got here

From a single conference at Columbia to a year-round platform for the investment AI community — here’s how the GAII Institute came to be and where it’s headed.

2025 — The inaugural GAIIM

GAIIM 2025 at Columbia University

Our first Generative AI in Investing conference drew 160+ practitioners to Columbia’s Alfred Lerner Hall — CIOs, CTOs, fund managers, and founders in one room.

2026 — Going deeper

GAII Institute Platform Launch

The second GAIIM (September 29–30) moves to a two-day hybrid format, and the Institute expands beyond the conference into year-round education, community, and the open benchmark.

What’s next

The Frontier

A living benchmark, a growing course library, and an ecosystem of AI partners — building the transparent standard for AI in investing.

Leadership & Partners

Who’s behind GAII

GAII Institute is led by Ehsan Ehsani, an investor and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, and supported by an advisory community of CIOs, CTOs, and fund managers at the frontier of AI adoption.