# Morgan Stanley: Research, patents and partnerships Source: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/morgan-stanley/ai-research-patents-partnerships Last updated: Oct 16, 2026 *Part of the [Morgan Stanley AI strategy profile](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/morgan-stanley).* ## What AI partnerships, patents and investments does Morgan Stanley have? Morgan Stanley's defining AI partnership is with OpenAI: in March 2023 its wealth unit was one of a handful of GPT-4 launch organizations and OpenAI's only strategic client in wealth management, and in September 2026 OpenAI named Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners for ChatGPT for Financial Services. Its tools rely on OpenAI's zero data retention. On October 14, 2026 Ted Pick said the firm has also been 'overweighted working with other complexes' in AI; on the record, it uses a beta of Anthropic's Mythos, names Snowflake its strategic data partner, was first to deploy BlackRock Aladdin Wealth's generative Auto Commentary, and is a founding premier member of the FINOS AI Fund. Its venture-style bets include a strategic investment in Arcade.dev, which manages what AI agents are authorized to do (June 2026). Patents assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group include a granted patent on rewriting legacy code with large language models (July 2025) and published applications on machine-learning document workflows for new accounts (July 2026) and generative-AI media summaries (February 2026). The firm does not run a public AI research lab. ([Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/key-milestone-in-innovation-journey-with-openai), [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-financial-services/), [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/morgan-stanley/), [The Motley Fool (earnings call transcript)](https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/10/14/morgan-stanley-ms-q3-2026-earnings-call-transcript/), [American Banker](https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ai-is-our-friend-bank-ceos-play-down-risks-from-mythos), [Snowflake (Business Wire)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250918557214/en/Snowflake-Named-2025-Strategic-Partner-of-the-Year-by-Morgan-Stanley), [BlackRock (Business Wire)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251002577295/en/Aladdin-Wealth-Launches-AI-Enabled-Commentary-Tool-for-Wealth-Advisors-Morgan-Stanleys-Portfolio-Risk-Platform-First-to-Implement), [FINOS](https://www.finos.org/press/finos-launches-ai-fund), [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/arcade-dev-raises-60-million-to-secure-ai-agents-5d07eff4), [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US12360791B1/en), [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260220396A1/en), [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260051336A1/en)) ## Who are Morgan Stanley's AI and data partners? | Partner | What it is | Since | Status | Sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | OpenAI | GPT-4 launch organization and only strategic wealth-management client; Assistant and Debrief (Whisper and GPT-4); zero data retention | March 2023 (relationship from 2022) | In production | [Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/key-milestone-in-innovation-journey-with-openai), [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/morgan-stanley/), [Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/ai-at-morgan-stanley-debrief-launch) | | OpenAI (ChatGPT for Financial Services) | Design partner, with Evercore, for OpenAI's banker research product built on GPT-6 Astra | September 10, 2026 | Launched | [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-financial-services/), [American Banker](https://www.americanbanker.com/news/openai-launches-financial-tool-for-wall-street-bankers) | | Anthropic | Beta of the Mythos model, disclosed by the CEO | April 2026 | Pilot | [American Banker](https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ai-is-our-friend-bank-ceos-play-down-risks-from-mythos) | | Snowflake | Strategic Partner of the Year 2025; a seven-year data partnership moving to AI workloads | September 2025 (award) | In production | [Snowflake (Business Wire)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250918557214/en/Snowflake-Named-2025-Strategic-Partner-of-the-Year-by-Morgan-Stanley) | | BlackRock Aladdin Wealth | Risk analytics since before 2023; first to implement the generative Auto Commentary | October 2025 | In production | [Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/key-milestone-in-innovation-journey-with-openai), [BlackRock (Business Wire)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251002577295/en/Aladdin-Wealth-Launches-AI-Enabled-Commentary-Tool-for-Wealth-Advisors-Morgan-Stanleys-Portfolio-Risk-Platform-First-to-Implement) | | FINOS | Founding premier member of the AI Fund; open-sourced the Calm architecture-as-code tool; uses the FINOS AI Governance Framework for vendor onboarding | 2025-2026 | Active | [FINOS](https://www.finos.org/press/finos-launches-ai-fund), [Banking Dive](https://www.bankingdive.com/news/morgan-stanley-open-source-software-development-finos-calm/758406/) | | Arcade.dev | Strategic investment in a startup that manages which actions AI agents may take | June 2026 | Investment | [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/arcade-dev-raises-60-million-to-secure-ai-agents-5d07eff4) | ## What AI patents does Morgan Stanley hold? Assignee Morgan Stanley Services Group. Applications are not granted rights. | Number | Title | Status | Date | Sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | US 12,360,791 B1 | Generating new software code from legacy software code using large language models | Granted | July 15, 2025 (priority May 2024) | [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US12360791B1/en) | | US 2026/0051336 A1 | Enhancing audio and video media with generative AI: summaries, chapter headings and chapter text | Published application | February 19, 2026 | [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260051336A1/en) | | US 2026/0220396 A1 | Managing document workflows using machine learning: identity, background and risk checks for new accounts with custom LLM prompts | Published application | July 30, 2026 | [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260220396A1/en) | ## How does Morgan Stanley's relationship with OpenAI work in practice? The 2023 release described a 'bespoke solution' designed 'for and by Morgan Stanley with appropriate controls' that answers only from the firm's content and does not use public ChatGPT. Morgan Stanley's releases carry a disclosure that it provides certain AI-supported products 'via an arrangement with OpenAI LLC', an unaffiliated party. ([Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/key-milestone-in-innovation-journey-with-openai), [Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/morgan-stanley-wins-2025-celent-model-wealth-manager-awards)) OpenAI's case study says the teams sat together to change retrieval methods for accuracy and that OpenAI's zero data retention policy answered the bank's first question, whether its data would train public ChatGPT. The firm describes AI @ Morgan Stanley as becoming a 'super app' for employees. ([OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/morgan-stanley/)) Not on the record: the commercial terms of the OpenAI relationship, the value of the Arcade.dev stake, or a count of AI patent filings. ([The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/arcade-dev-raises-60-million-to-secure-ai-agents-5d07eff4), [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-financial-services/)) ## What does the Morgan Stanley profile record on this topic? | Date | Move | Detail | Sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sep 10, 2026 | Design partner for OpenAI's banker research tool | OpenAI says the product was built through a design partnership with Morgan Stanley and Evercore. | [American Banker](https://www.americanbanker.com/news/openai-launches-financial-tool-for-wall-street-bankers) | | Jul 30, 2026 | Patent application: machine-learning document workflows for new accounts | US 2026/0220396: verifying an applicant's identity and background and assessing risk by running document workflows with custom LLM prompts for translation, summary and inference. | [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260220396A1/en) | | Jun 23, 2026 | Founding premier member of the FINOS AI Fund | With DTCC, RBC and NatWest; Coimbatore says the firm uses the FINOS AI Governance Framework in new vendor onboarding. | [FINOS](https://www.finos.org/press/finos-launches-ai-fund) | | Jun 15, 2026 | Strategic investment in Arcade.dev | A startup managing which actions AI agents are authorised to take. | [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/arcade-dev-raises-60-million-to-secure-ai-agents-5d07eff4) | | Feb 19, 2026 | Patent application: generative-AI summaries of audio and video media | US 2026/0051336: LLM-generated summaries, chapter headings and chapter text for a media player; priority August 2024. | [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260051336A1/en) | | Sep 18, 2025 | Snowflake named strategic partner of the year | A seven-year data partnership that has moved from warehousing to AI-driven workloads. | [Snowflake (Business Wire)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250918557214/en/Snowflake-Named-2025-Strategic-Partner-of-the-Year-by-Morgan-Stanley) | | Aug 15, 2025 | Calm, the firm's architecture-as-code tool, open-sourced through FINOS | Already underpinning well over 2,000 application deployments across firms and more than 1,400 internally; Morgan Stanley, BMO, Citi and RBC joined a June 2025 FINOS effort on vendor-neutral AI adoption standards. | [Banking Dive](https://www.bankingdive.com/news/morgan-stanley-open-source-software-development-finos-calm/758406/) | | Jul 15, 2025 | Patent granted on LLM conversion of legacy code | US 12,360,791, assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group: converting a legacy program into a human-language description that can be validated and then rewritten; priority May 2024. | [Google Patents (USPTO)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US12360791B1/en) | | Mar 1, 2023 | OpenAI named strategic partner for wealth management | The firm's only wealth-management AI strategic partner; the relationship began in 2022. | [Morgan Stanley](https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/ai-at-morgan-stanley-debrief-launch), [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/ai-agents-morgan-stanley-wealth-management-funnel.html) | ## Common questions ### Is Morgan Stanley partnered with OpenAI? Yes. In March 2023 Morgan Stanley Wealth Management announced a strategic initiative with OpenAI as one of a handful of GPT-4 launch organizations and OpenAI's only strategic wealth-management client. The Assistant and Debrief run on OpenAI models, and in September 2026 OpenAI named Morgan Stanley and Evercore design partners for ChatGPT for Financial Services. ### Does Morgan Stanley use Anthropic's models? CEO Ted Pick said on the Q1 2026 call in April that the firm was using a beta of Anthropic's Mythos model. On the Q3 2026 call he said that beyond OpenAI the firm has been 'overweighted working with other complexes', without naming them. ### What AI patents does Morgan Stanley have? Morgan Stanley Services Group holds US 12,360,791 (July 2025) on generating new code from legacy code with large language models, and has published applications on generative-AI summaries of audio and video (February 2026) and machine-learning document workflows for opening new accounts (July 2026). ### What AI startups has Morgan Stanley invested in? The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2026 that Morgan Stanley made a strategic investment in Arcade.dev, which raised $60 million to manage the actions AI agents are authorized to take. The firm has not published a list of AI investments or their size. ## Deeper on Morgan Stanley - [How does Morgan Stanley use AI in wealth management?](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/morgan-stanley/wealth-management-ai) - [What is Morgan Stanley's AI strategy?](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/morgan-stanley/ai-strategy) --- Canonical page: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/morgan-stanley/ai-research-patents-partnerships Part of [BankingNewsAI](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/) — a free daily brief on AI in banking, an AI regulation tracker (42 authorities, 243 documents) and AI-strategy profiles of the 120 largest US banks. Markdown versions of every reference page: append `.md` to the page URL; index at https://www.bankingnewsai.com/llms.txt.