Developer-first, then vendor-built agents embedded in the back office — an 'assembly line' automated one function at a time.
How is Goldman Sachs using AI?
Goldman Sachs approached AI through its 12,000 developers first — GitHub Copilot in 2024, Cognition's Devin agent in 2025 — then gave its whole 46,000-person workforce the GS AI Assistant, which fields more than a million prompts a month. The distinctive 2026 move was to let a model vendor inside: for six months Anthropic engineers sat with Goldman teams co-developing autonomous agents for trade accounting and client onboarding, the first such arrangement disclosed by a major bank. President John Waldron calls the firm a 'human assembly line' now facing the automation manufacturing went through, while CEO David Solomon says he does not expect a white-collar wipeout. The firm is also an active investor in the AI supply chain — Anthropic's and OpenAI's enterprise-services ventures, the fintech Taktile — and a Mythos user 'supplementing' its cyber resilience after regulators called the largest banks in.
Lead bank
Goldman Sachs Bank USA
Assets (lead bank, Jun 30, 2026)
$759 billion
Charter
State member bank (Fed)
Headquarters
New York, NY
Flagship platform
GS AI Platform and GS AI Assistant
AI leadership
Marco Argenti · John Waldron · Daniel Marcu · David Solomon · Neema Raphael · Kim Posnett · Ericka Leslie · Archana Vemulapalli · Evan Kotsovinos · Dinesh Keswani · Lou D'Ambrosio · Chris Churchman · Denis Coleman · Marc Nachmann · Joseph Briggs · Kevin Sneader
- Developer-first: GitHub Copilot for 12,000 developers in 2024; Devin, an autonomous software engineer, piloted as a team member in 2025.
- GS AI Assistant available to all 46,000 employees since July 2025; more than a million prompts a month.
- February 2026: embedded Anthropic engineers co-developing Claude-based agents for accounting of trades and transactions and for client vetting and onboarding.
- April 2026: using Anthropic's Mythos and 'supplementing' cyber and infrastructure resilience after Treasury and the Fed summoned bank leaders.
- Investor in the AI services layer: Ode with Anthropic (with Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman), OpenAI's DeployCo, and a $110 million Series C in decisioning-software firm Taktile; 70 AI venture deals since 2019.
- Leadership is explicit about labour: Waldron's 'human assembly line', Goldman Research economists raising their US displacement estimate in June 2026 from 6-7% to over 9% of workers (about 15 million over ten years), and a partner's warning about 'cognitive atrophy' if bankers outsource reasoning to models.
- OneGS 3.0 (October 2025): 'a new operating model propelled by artificial intelligence', starting with six workstreams — client onboarding and KYC, enterprise risk, vendor management, lending, regulatory reporting and sales enablement — alongside potential job cuts and a hiring slowdown.
- Governance in the filings: a standalone AI risk factor in the 2025 10-K, and by mid-2026 a Firmwide Artificial Intelligence Risk Committee co-chaired by the CIO and chief risk officer. Open AI roles include AI safety platform engineering, AI model validation and agentic systems in technology risk (listed below, as of 24 September 2026).
- Platform design (June 2024): the GS AI Platform is the single entry point for generative AI, with Microsoft-hosted GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, Google Gemini and Meta Llama behind it; the bank had banned in-house use of ChatGPT. By July 2025 staff could pick among current GPT, Gemini and Claude models, with prompt controls that flag the information users enter.
- Coding agents carry the headline numbers: Argenti told American Banker in June 2026 that Devin pilots produced up to 20% efficiency gains; CNBC reported in February 2026 that Devin is broadly available to engineers, and Forbes in August 2026 that hundreds of agents work beside the 12,000 human engineers. Solomon said in January 2025 that AI can complete 95% of an IPO filing in minutes, a task that took a six-person team two weeks.
- AI leadership has been hired in from outside: Daniel Marcu (Amazon, March 2025) as Global Head of AI Engineering and Science, Archana Vemulapalli (AMD, April 2026) for AI product management and frontier-lab relations, Evan Kotsovinos (Google, July 2026) for asset and wealth management engineering, and Dinesh Keswani (Nomura, September 2026) as co-head of The Core Engineering.
- Headcount effect is stated in terms of growth, not cuts: on the Q2 2026 call Solomon said the firm is 'not growing our human capital footprint quite the same way'; CNBC reported in February 2026 that Solomon wants to constrain headcount growth and that Argenti called job losses in compliance and accounting premature. The 2025 compensation line included $250 million of severance.
- Q3 2026 call (13 October 2026): Solomon cited studies putting US data-centre investment above $10 trillion through 2032, said compute demand exceeds supply and a reset will bring 'bumps', and called for 'rigorous testing, independent review, continuous monitoring and clear human accountability' for AI.
- Intellectual property is concentrated on retrieval and coding assistants: at least five AI patents and applications assigned to Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC were granted or published between January and July 2026, covering embedding fine-tuning, embedding-free retrieval-augmented generation, generative data-query pipelines, enhanced search and context injection for coding assistants.
What is GS AI Platform and GS AI Assistant?
A firm-hosted platform for generative-AI assistants, extended to all 46,000 employees in July 2025 and answering more than a million prompts a month; developers got GitHub Copilot in 2024 and Cognition's autonomous engineer Devin as a team member in 2025.[6][7]
What AI partnerships and patents does Goldman Sachs have?
Goldman buys models from several labs through its own GS AI Platform (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, with Meta Llama earlier), runs Cognition's Devin, and embedded Anthropic engineers for six months. It also invests in Anthropic's and OpenAI's enterprise-services ventures and in Taktile, and supports FINOS, where it open-sourced its Legend data platform. Its patent record is on Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC: five AI patents and applications granted or published in 2026, covering embedding fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, data-query agents, enhanced search and coding-assistant context.[1][39][6][15][10][58][59][60][61][62]
| Item | What it is | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Embedded engineers co-built Claude agents for trade accounting and client onboarding; Mythos used for cyber resilience | In production | 2026-02-06[1][43] |
| Cognition (Devin) | Autonomous software engineer; first major bank customer per Cognition, no equity stake | In production | 2025-07-11[39][1] |
| OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft | Models behind the GS AI Platform: GPT via Microsoft, Gemini and Llama in 2024; GPT, Gemini and Claude choices in 2025 | In production | 2025-07-25[33][35][6] |
| Ode with Anthropic | Enterprise AI services firm formed by Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman; Goldman in the founding consortium | Investor | 2026-05-04[25][15] |
| OpenAI DeployCo | Enterprise-deployment venture of OpenAI; Goldman invests alongside BBVA | Investor | 2026-05-14[11] |
| Taktile | Decisioning software firm; Goldman led a $110 million round | Investor | 2026-06-24[10] |
| NVIDIA compute-financing platform | One of six firms mobilising over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure | Memorandum of understanding | 2026-08-10[29] |
| FINOS Legend | Goldman-developed open-source data modelling and governance platform, released through FINOS in 2020 | In production | 2020-10-19[40] |
| FINOS common controls for AI services | Goldman listed as a supporter of the AI controls project with banks and hyperscalers | Supporter | 2025-06-24[38] |
| US 12,518,171 B2 | Data generation and retraining for fine-tuning embedding models for data retrieval | Granted | 2026-01-06[58] |
| US 12,585,896 B1 | Embedding-free retriever-augmented generation architectures | Granted | 2026-03-24[59] |
| US 12,619,620 B2 | Self-healing generative AI/ML pipeline for complex data queries using a semantic data model | Granted | 2026-05-05[60] |
| US 12,688,219 B2 | Enhanced search for information discovery | Granted | 2026-07-21[61] |
| US 2026/0072655 A1 | Context injection for AI coding assistants | Published application | 2026-03-12[62] |
What has Goldman done on AI, and when?
- Oct 13, 2026
- Oct 8, 2026
Sneader: new joiners 'are managing agents'[55]
Goldman's Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) head tells the Milken Institute Asia Summit that young staff manage a 'virtual army' of agents from day one, raising the question of middle managers.
- Oct 1, 2026
2026 proxy statement credits Waldron with the AI programme[32]
Goldman's proxy statement credits president John Waldron with overseeing the firm's AI initiatives, including deploying internal AI assistants and coding tools to handle repetitive tasks; Waldron tells CNBC 'digital agents will be our robots' as 'our human assembly lines become more digitized'.
- Sep 3, 2026
Dinesh Keswani joins as co-head and CTO of The Core Engineering[53]
Hired from Nomura, where he was chief technology and operations officer; co-heads The Core with Gopi Parameswaran.
- Aug 24, 2026
Partner warns of 'cognitive atrophy'[3]
Chris Churchman, leading a flagship AI project, on the danger of outsourcing reasoning to models.
- Aug 10, 2026
NVIDIA compute-financing platform partner[29]
One of six firms signing memorandums of understanding to mobilise over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure.
- Aug 6, 2026
Forbes: hundreds of agents work beside 12,000 engineers[51]
Goldman is described as the first major bank to deploy virtual software engineers on real production tasks, starting with legacy modernisation.
- Aug 3, 2026
- Jul 30, 2026
AlphaAI launched for AI-led investing[50]
Lou D'Ambrosio chairs AI for Asset Management; the memo cites over 100 scaled AI use cases inside portfolio companies.
- Jul 15, 2026
Backs Ode with Anthropic[15]
An enterprise AI services firm formed by Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman with a consortium including Goldman.
- Jul 14, 2026
Q2 2026 call: AI 'will not replace' Goldman's people[27]
Solomon calls AI a transformational technology that expands talent; Coleman says the firm can keep investing in AI productivity.
- Jul 6, 2026
Evan Kotsovinos joins from Google[49]
Partner and head of Asset & Wealth Management Engineering; at Google he led AI safety and security work within Privacy, Safety and Security.
- Jun 25, 2026
- Jun 24, 2026
Leads $110 million round in Taktile[10]
A bet that AI is ready for banks' regulated, high-stakes decisions.
- Jun 4, 2026
Solomon: no white-collar wipeout[14]
On Bloomberg's Odd Lots the CEO discusses headcount, AI and the bank's role in the SpaceX IPO.
- May 14, 2026
Invests in OpenAI's DeployCo[11]
Alongside BBVA, backing OpenAI's enterprise-deployment venture.
- May 12, 2026
- May 8, 2026
Argenti measures idea-to-production speed, not AI usage[26]
The CIO says tracking individual use is the wrong metric for his 12,000 engineers; Legend lets staff search firm files in natural language.
- May 4, 2026
- May 1, 2026
- Apr 13, 2026
Q1 2026 call: cloud and data spend brought forward for AI[24]
CFO Denis Coleman says early OneGS 3.0 learnings mean accelerating cloud migration and data quality, critical to deploying AI across the firm.
- Apr 13, 2026
Using Mythos; regulators call in bank chiefs[13]
Solomon says the firm is supplementing cyber resilience after Bessent and Powell convened Wall Street leaders.
- Apr 6, 2026
Archana Vemulapalli hired to lead AI product management[42]
Partner and Global Head of AI Product Management and Strategic Relations, from AMD; she also leads engagement with frontier AI labs and application providers.
- Mar 20, 2026
Solomon's letter flags AI-exposed private credit[16]
'Exposure to software companies that may be adversely affected by AI' named as a reminder that the credit cycle has not been repealed.
- Feb 25, 2026
2025 10-K carries a standalone AI risk factor[23]
Generative-AI errors, bias, opacity, reliance on third-party models and heightened risk from OneGS 3.0.
- Feb 6, 2026
- Jan 22, 2026
Argenti: 2025 'the biggest changes' of a 40-year career[18]
The CIO predicts 2026 will be bigger, with personal agents and mega alliances.
- Jan 15, 2026
- Oct 14, 2025
- Jul 25, 2025
GS AI Assistant reaches the whole workforce[6]
46,000 employees; a million prompts a month; Devin agents joining developer teams.
- Jul 11, 2025
Devin pilot announced: 'hundreds of Devins', maybe thousands[39]
Argenti expects Cognition's agent to raise developer productivity three to four times over earlier AI tools; Goldman is the first major bank to use it, per Cognition, and holds no stake in Cognition.
- Jun 23, 2025
Argenti memo: GS AI Assistant launches firmwide[37]
About 10,000 employees already use it; it will help with summarising documents, drafting content and data analysis.
- Mar 17, 2025
Daniel Marcu joins as Global Head of AI Engineering and Science[36]
A Partner in Engineering, hired from Amazon's AGI organisation, with more than 35 US patents.
- Jan 21, 2025
GS AI Assistant reaches about 10,000 employees[35]
Argenti aims to cover all knowledge workers within the year; answers draw on OpenAI, Google Gemini and Meta Llama models, with Anthropic, Mistral and Cohere under evaluation.
- Jan 15, 2025
Solomon: AI can draft 95% of an IPO filing in minutes[34]
At the Cisco AI Summit he says a six-person team once needed two weeks for an S-1; 'the last 5% now matters'. He puts engineers at 11,000 of 46,000 staff.
- Jun 27, 2024
GS AI Platform: one entry point, several model vendors[33]
Argenti says the first generative-AI tool, for code generation, reaches thousands of developers by month end; the platform uses Microsoft-hosted GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, Google Gemini and Meta Llama, and the bank had banned in-house ChatGPT.
- Jan 1, 2024
GitHub Copilot for 12,000 developers[6]
The first firm-wide generative-AI deployment, to engineering.
Where does Goldman use AI today?
| System | What it does | Status | Use case |
|---|---|---|---|
| GS AI Assistant[6][7] | Firm-wide conversational assistant on the GS AI Platform. | In production | Generative & agentic AI |
| Devin and coding agents[7] | Autonomous software engineer piloted in developer teams. | Pilot | Generative & agentic AI |
| Client vetting and onboarding agents[1][9] | Claude-based agents co-developed with Anthropic. | Pilot | AML / KYC |
| Trade and transaction accounting agents[1] | Automating accounting for trades and transactions. | Pilot | AI governance (general) |
| Mythos vulnerability discovery[13] | Using the restricted model and working with Anthropic on cyber risks. | In production | Cybersecurity |
| OneGS 3.0 AI workstreams[22][21] | AI-led redesign of client onboarding and KYC, enterprise risk, vendor management, lending, regulatory reporting and sales enablement. | Rolling out | Generative & agentic AI |
| Legend natural-language research[26] | Staff search the bank's files in natural language without knowing where a document sits. | In production | Generative & agentic AI |
| AI risk factor and Firmwide AI Risk Committee[23][28] | 10-K risk factor on generative-AI output, bias, opacity and third-party models; oversight by a committee co-chaired by the CIO and chief risk officer. | In production | Model risk management |
| Coding agents on production work[1][51][45] | Devin is broadly available to engineers and hundreds of agents work beside 12,000 developers; Argenti cites up to 20% efficiency gains and says developers now set specs and review output. | In production | AI-generated code & coding agents |
| Prompt controls on the GS AI Platform[6] | Controls check what information staff enter in prompts and flag it; the platform lets users choose among current GPT, Gemini and Claude models. | In production | Data & privacy |
| Marquee AI for institutional clients[52] | Natural-language assistant on the Marquee platform that breaks a question into research topics and attributes statements to source lines; available internally only as of August 2026. | Pilot | Trading & capital markets |
| AlphaAI for investing[50] | Asset-management platform for finding dispersion within sectors, drawing on public and private markets data. | Rolling out | Generative & agentic AI |
| Frontier-lab and AI-application vendor relations[42][1] | A Partner-level head of AI product management leads strategic engagement with frontier labs and AI application providers, alongside embedded Anthropic engineers and the Devin deployment. | In production | Third-party & vendor AI |
Use-case links open the tracker's rules-by-use-case matrix: which documents govern each system type.
Which AI vendors and fintechs does Goldman work with?
| Company | What Goldman uses it for | Status | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT Enterprise (OpenAI) | GS AI assistant gives staff a choice of models including 'the latest GPTs'. | In production | Enterprise AI assistants |
| Claude (Anthropic) | Claude offered to staff in the GS AI assistant; Claude-based agents for trade accounting and client onboarding in early development with embedded Anthropic engineers (February 2026); has access to Mythos. | In production | Enterprise AI assistants |
| Gemini Enterprise (Google Cloud) | GS AI assistant offers staff 'the latest Gemini' among its model choices. | In production | Enterprise AI assistants |
| GitHub Copilot | GitHub Copilot coding assistants given to the firm's 12,000 developers starting in 2024. | In production | Enterprise AI assistants |
Each vendor and fintech page cites the source for the relationship, and vendor pages list products, pricing and other bank customers. Compare AI tools for banks by category, or read the fintech and neobank AI dossiers.
What has Goldman disclosed in numbers?
| Metric | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Employees with GS AI Assistant | 46,000 (all)[6] | Jul 25, 2025 |
| Prompts | 1 million+ a month[7] | Jun 1, 2026 |
| Developers with coding assistants | 12,000[6] | Jul 25, 2025 |
| AI venture deals since 2019 | 70 (third among US banks)[12] | Apr 20, 2026 |
| Q2 2026 revenue | $20.3 billion, +39%, on an AI-driven markets boom[5] | Jul 14, 2026 |
| OneGS 3.0 initial workstreams | 6[22] | Jan 15, 2026 |
| NVIDIA compute-financing platforms (six partners) | > $500 billion of third-party capital targeted[29] | Aug 10, 2026 |
| Employees using GS AI Assistant before firmwide launch | about 10,000[37] | Jun 23, 2025 |
| Devin agents planned at pilot start | hundreds, possibly thousands[39] | Jul 11, 2025 |
| Developer efficiency gain reported by CIO | up to 20%[45] | Jun 1, 2026 |
| Goldman Research estimate of US workers displaced by AI | over 9% (about 15 million) over ten years, up from 6-7%[46][47] | Jun 25, 2026 |
| Goldman Research 2027 forecast of big-five hyperscaler AI capex | $1.2 trillion (consensus $1.1 trillion)[54] | Sep 25, 2026 |
| US data-centre investment cited by Solomon | over $10 trillion through 2032, about 3.6% of US GDP a year[56][57] | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Efficiency ratio, first nine months of 2026 | 59.4%, improved 270 basis points[56] | Oct 13, 2026 |
“I often describe Goldman Sachs as a human assembly line.”[8]
John Waldron · President and COO · May 12, 2026
“There's a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource our reasoning to these models, and we have cognitive atrophy.”[3]
Chris Churchman · Partner · Aug 24, 2026
“The rapidly accelerating advancements in AI can unlock significant productivity gains for us, and we are confident we can re-invest those gains to continue delivering world-class solutions for our clients.”[21]
David Solomon, John Waldron and Denis Coleman · CEO, President and CFO (staff memo) · Oct 14, 2025
“We see AI as a transformational technology that expands the capabilities of our best-in-class talent.”[27]
David Solomon · Chairman and CEO · Jul 14, 2026
“There’s zero time between idea and prototype.”[26]
Marco Argenti · Chief Information Officer · May 8, 2026
“AI is an opportunity to fundamentally rethink how we work, how we develop talent, how we deliver advice, and how we equip clients to navigate increasingly complex decisions.”[30]
Kim Posnett · Global Co-Head of Investment Banking · Oct 1, 2026
“Digital agents will be our robots.”[32]
John Waldron · President and Chief Operating Officer · Oct 1, 2026
“The choice is not between halting progress and moving forward without guardrails.”[57][56]
David Solomon · Chairman and CEO · Oct 13, 2026
“We have the model. We’re working closely with Anthropic and all of our security vendors to kind of harness frontier capabilities wherever it’s possible.”[43]
David Solomon · Chairman and CEO · Apr 13, 2026
“We’re going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin, which is going to be like our new employee who’s going to start doing stuff on the behalf of our developers.”[39]
Marco Argenti · Chief Information Officer · Jul 11, 2025
“The last 5% now matters because the rest is now a commodity.”[34]
David Solomon · Chairman and CEO · Jan 15, 2025
“When our young folks now start work, they’re managing agents.”[55]
Kevin Sneader · Leader of Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) · Oct 8, 2026
Who runs AI at Goldman?
Marco ArgentiLinkedIn ↗
John WaldronLinkedIn ↗
President and Chief Operating Officer[8]
Daniel MarcuLinkedIn ↗
Partner; Global Head of AI Engineering and Science (joined March 2025 from Amazon's AGI organisation)[36][17]
David SolomonLinkedIn ↗
Neema RaphaelLinkedIn ↗
Chief Data Officer and Head of Data Engineering[19]
Kim Posnett
Global Co-Head of Investment Banking[30]
Ericka Leslie
Chief Administrative Officer; Global Head of Operations and Engineering, Global Banking & Markets[31]
Archana Vemulapalli
Partner; Global Head of AI Product Management and Strategic Relations (leads engagement with frontier AI labs)[42]
Evan Kotsovinos
Partner; Head of Asset & Wealth Management Engineering (formerly Google head of Privacy, Safety and Security)[49]
Dinesh Keswani
Partner; Co-Head and Chief Technology Officer, The Core Engineering[53]
Lou D'Ambrosio
Chairman of Artificial Intelligence for Asset Management; leads AlphaAI[50]
Marc Nachmann
Global Head of Asset & Wealth Management[50]
Joseph Briggs
Head of Global Economics Research, Goldman Sachs Research (AI labour-market forecasts)[47]
Kevin Sneader
Leader of the Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) business[55]
What AI roles is Goldman hiring for?
Data as of · 12 AI-titled postings · read from Goldman's own careers site, re-checked weekly
12 open AI-related postings on Goldman's careers site as of Oct 25, 2026. A snapshot of current openings, not a source: postings close. Compare with other banks on which banks are hiring for AI.
New York, NY, United States · posted
Risk, AI Model Validation, Vice President, New York
New York, NY, United States · posted
The Core Engineering, New York, Vice President, AI/ML Engineer
New York, NY, United States · posted
Real Estate Data Science, Vice President
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom · posted
New York, NY, United States · posted
AI Enabled Modernization - Agentic Software Engineer - Vice President (New York, NY)
New York, NY, United States · posted
Legal, Cyber & Artificial Intelligence Attorney , Vice President , New York/Dallas
New York, NY, United States · posted
Applied Research - Artificial Intelligence - London - Associate
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom · posted
Model Risk Management, AI Risk, Dallas, Analyst/Associate
Dallas, TX, United States · posted
Risk - AI Model Validation - Associate - Birmingham
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom · posted
Associate Applied AI - Deep Learning/Time Series
New York, NY, United States · posted
AI/ML Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, RIA Engineering
New York, NY, United States · posted
Which regulators govern Goldman's AI?
| Authority | Why it matters here | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Reserve | Goldman Sachs Bank USA is a state member bank supervised by the Fed; SR 26-2 governs its models and SR 23-4 its vendor agents. | SR 26-2 SR 23-4 |
| NY DFS | New York-chartered bank: Part 500 cybersecurity certification and the DFS frontier-AI letter apply directly. | 23 NYCRR Part 500 DFS Frontier AI Models Industry Letter (May 2026) |
| SEC | Broker-dealer and adviser businesses; SEC exam priorities cover AI in trading, back office and AML. | Division of Examinations FY2026 Priorities |
| FinCEN | Onboarding agents operate inside the BSA/AML program; the 2026 proposed rule rewards 'effective use of AI' explicitly. | 2026 AML/CFT Program Proposed Rule |
| FSB | G-SIB; the FSB's third-party practice and frontier-AI warning both bear on the Anthropic dependency. | FSB AI sound practices consultation (June 2026) FSB Chair's letter to G20 (Aug 2026) |
Side by side: SR 11-7 vs SR 26-2 · PRA SS1/23 vs SR 26-2 · MAS AI Risk Management Guidelines vs SR 26-2 · all comparisons.
What does the public record suggest about Goldman's AI strategy?
Analysis by BankingNewsAI from the sources cited on this page. Observations, not advice.
01
Embedding a vendor's engineers is a third-party-risk event, not only a productivity one
Agents co-built with Anthropic for onboarding and accounting are 'critical activities' under the interagency guidance; the contract, exit plan and model-change controls will matter more than the agents' accuracy.
02
The back office is where the automation lands first
Trade accounting and client onboarding are the two functions named; both are high-frequency, rules-heavy and examinable, which is why they were chosen.
03
Goldman is on both sides of the AI trade
It automates with Anthropic's models, invests in Anthropic's and OpenAI's services ventures, and leads their IPOs. Conflicts and information barriers are a governance topic the firm has already had to address publicly.
04
The reasoning-skills warning is a talent-pipeline signal
A partner saying juniors risk 'cognitive atrophy' is the same concern regulators voice about human oversight — expect apprenticeship models and hiring plans to be discussed alongside AI.
Where does the Goldman record go deeper?
5 topic pages under this profile, each answering one question from the same sourced record.
- What is Goldman Sachs' AI strategy?
- What AI research, patents and partnerships does Goldman Sachs have?
- What technology stack does Goldman Sachs use for AI?
- How does Goldman Sachs govern AI and manage its risks?
- What proprietary AI has Goldman Sachs built in-house?
- Has Goldman Sachs had a publicly reported AI incident?
Which leader rankings does Goldman appear in?
6 of the computed leaders rankings include Goldman, each ranked from the same sourced bank pages.
How does Goldman compare with its peers?
- How does Goldman Sachs compare with its peers on AI and technology?
- Goldman Sachs competitors and alternatives, by business line
Its peer group on this site, by business model and size:
- Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on AI’s economic impact: ‘There’s very little that we do where we need frontier models’
- Goldman Sachs CEO Says Individuals Must Be Held Accountable for AI Failures
- JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs underscore security in AI plans
- AI could displace one in 11 workers, Goldman says, but the layoffs are likely waiting for a recession
- Goldman Sachs Commits $500 Million to Launch Small Business AI Institute and Expand 10,000 Small Businesses
What is Goldman Sachs doing with Anthropic?
In February 2026 Goldman's CIO Marco Argenti told CNBC the bank had spent six months working with embedded Anthropic engineers to co-develop autonomous AI agents in at least two areas: accounting for trades and transactions, and client vetting and onboarding. Goldman confirmed the report. The firm also uses Anthropic's restricted Mythos model for cyber resilience and joined the investor consortium behind Ode with Anthropic in July 2026.
How many Goldman Sachs employees use AI?
All roughly 46,000 employees have had access to the GS AI Assistant since July 2025, and the tool handles more than a million prompts a month. Its 12,000 developers have used GitHub Copilot since 2024.
Who leads AI at Goldman Sachs?
Marco Argenti, chief information officer and a member of the management committee, is responsible for the GS AI Platform, the GS AI Assistant and the Devin and Claude agent deployments. Daniel Marcu, hired from Amazon in March 2025, is Global Head of AI Engineering and Science. Archana Vemulapalli, hired from AMD in April 2026, heads AI product management and frontier-lab relations. President John Waldron is credited in the proxy with overseeing AI initiatives, and Neema Raphael is chief data officer. Oversight of AI risk sits with a Firmwide AI Risk Committee co-chaired by the CIO and the chief risk officer.
Which AI models and vendors does Goldman Sachs use?
The GS AI Platform gives staff a choice of current OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude models; in 2024 it also ran Meta Llama, and Microsoft hosted the GPT models. Cognition's Devin works as an autonomous coder, and Anthropic engineers were embedded for six months to build Claude agents for trade accounting and client onboarding. Goldman also invests in the supply chain: Ode with Anthropic, OpenAI's DeployCo, Taktile, and an NVIDIA compute-financing platform. Its Legend data platform is open source through FINOS.
Is Goldman Sachs cutting jobs because of AI?
Not by its own account. The OneGS 3.0 memo of October 2025 warned of potential job cuts and a hiring slowdown, though a spokesman said headcount would still end the year higher. In February 2026 Argenti called job losses in compliance and accounting premature, and Solomon has talked of constraining headcount growth. On the Q2 2026 call he said the firm is not growing its human capital footprint as it once would. The 2025 compensation line included $250 million of severance. Goldman Research expects over 9% of US workers to be displaced over ten years.
- Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles
- Goldman Sachs teams up with Anthropic to automate banking tasks with AI agents, CNBC reports
- Goldman Sachs partner warns of 'huge danger' in letting AI replace bankers' reasoning skills
- Goldman Sachs President John Waldron: Our workforce processes will change because of AI
- Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are emerging as AI winners
- Goldman Sachs staff now write a million gen AI prompts a month
- Marco Argenti gives Goldman Sachs coders an AI helper
- Goldman president says bank is 'human assembly line' facing automation
- Goldman equips AI agents to do trade accounting, onboarding
- Goldman leads $110M bet on Taktile's AI software
- BBVA and Goldman Sachs invest in OpenAI's new venture
- Wells Fargo, Citi and Goldman lead in AI venture investment
- Goldman Is Using Mythos, Working With Anthropic on Cyber Risks
- Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Running a Bank in the Age of AI
- Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman Introduce Ode with Anthropic
- Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk (Solomon shareholder letter)
- The Next Five Years of AI (Journal House session with Daniel Marcu)
- What to Expect From AI in 2026: Personal Agents, Mega Alliances, and the Gigawatt Ceiling
- AI Exchanges: The Role of Data (transcript)
- Goldman Sachs Reports Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Results (Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.2)
- Goldman Sachs eyes layoffs and hiring slowdown amid AI push, memo shows
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