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Sivulka: Hebbia performs almost any junior analyst task better than humans

George Sivulka · Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services · Feb 14, 2025 · at 15:00

George Sivulka, founder and CEO of Hebbia, evaluates his AI product's capabilities compared to human junior finance and legal analysts.

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“And you can actually look at our product today and you could argue that it could do almost any task that a junior analyst could do better than a junior analyst.”

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