Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg’s $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity’s Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity's Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

Moreover, anyone can ask the bot for the functions they need from the Terminal, as relatively few will need everything it can offer. The design can also evolve and be iterated upon with additional prompting, too. While it's quite hyperbolic to claim a bot can replicate the Bloomberg Terminal, it can be argued that with enough effort, folks can make a simplistic, skin-deep version of it that's enough for their needs.

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King_V Whaaaaatt?? No no no! AI is supposed to cut costs and boost profits by putting regular people out of work. Nobody ever approved of it putting multi-billion dollar corporations out of business; that's just unacceptable! /s Reply

timsSOFTWARE What makes the terminal worth $30K a year is what's on it – not the terminal itself. You can build an app that searches for/aggregates information from different sources, but it's the very timely reporting of info that finance people pay that amount of money for – because in some cases, if you can get info a few minutes before everyone else, there is money to be made on it. Reply

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