OpenAI looks to replace the drudgery of junior bankers’ workload

OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers helping train its artificial intelligence on how to build financial models as it looks to replace the hours of grunt work performed by junior bankers across the industry.

The group, which includes former employees of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are part of a secretive project inside the startup that’s codenamed Mercury, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

Participants are paid $150 per hour to write prompts and build financial models for a range of…