Teams — Global Metacase Challenge

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Founding and collaborating organizations

The Global Metacase Initiative is founded by GIFTS at Nanyang Technological University, with collaborating organizations in Asia and the United States.

Founding organization

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Global Institute of Finance, Technology, and Society

NTU GIFTS

A university-wide institute jointly anchored by Nanyang Business School and CCDS. GIFTS brings together research in AI, finance and the digital economy, connecting academic work with industry collaboration and policy.

Research clusters

AI and Technomics Engines
Society and Market Solutions
Global ADEFT Network

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Initiatives, centres and labs at GIFTS

Global Metacase InitiativeShared infrastructure for training, evaluating and deploying AI agents in economics, finance, business and the social sciences.
Economic World Models InitiativeAI-powered simulation of economies, markets, organisations and societies.
Autonomous Innovation & Research (AIR) InitiativeAI systems that support, accelerate and partly automate research and innovation.
Intelligent Economy InitiativeHow AI, autonomous systems and trusted digital infrastructure are transforming production, finance, commerce and governance.
Centre of AI for Social Science (AI4S2)AI methods for social science, business research and policy analysis.
Investment Intelligence and Innovation Lab (I³ Lab)AI-driven trading, quantimental investing and autonomous financial agents.
Digital Economy and Financial Technology Lab (DEFT Lab)Digital payments, blockchain-based systems, decentralised finance and AI for finance.

Collaborating organizations

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

NTU NBS

Nanyang Business School

One of the two NTU schools that jointly anchor GIFTS.

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NTU College of Computing and Data Science

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

NTU CCDS

College of Computing and Data Science

One of the two NTU schools that jointly anchor GIFTS.

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The University of Hong Kong · Centre for AI, Management and Organization (CAMO)

HKU AI-Agents Lab

Lab for AI-Agents in Business and Economics

Research spans multi-agent systems, specialist agents with domain expertise, and the effects of AI on people, firms and organizations.

Related project

Econometric AI develops agents for econometric research and education, including analysis planning, code generation and execution. The lab's project page links to the public Econometrics-Agent code and research dataset.

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Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · School of Statistics and Data Science

SUFE AIFLM Lab

Lab for AI and Financial Large Language Models

Large language models for finance, including the Fin-R1 reasoning model and the FinEval evaluation benchmark, with researchers from finance, statistics, artificial intelligence and computer science.

Related subtrack

Subtrack 02 · Professional tasks. The team contributes complex business scenarios, including a finance demo and an HR demo. Release details are to be announced.

SUFE-AIFLM-Lab on GitHub

Shenzhen · Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area

SLAI

Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

An AI institute in the Greater Bay Area that educates future AI leaders through international, interdisciplinary and industry-linked programs, and advances theory and applications in key areas of AI.

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Tsinghua University · PBC School of Finance

Tsinghua PBCSF

Research Center for Wealth Management

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Columbia Engineering · Center for Digital Finance and Technologies

Columbia University · School of Engineering and Applied Science

Columbia CDFT

Center for Digital Finance and Technologies

Seeks to advance the digital transformation of financial services for higher efficiency and security, increased accessibility, and greater social responsibility.

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