OpenAI just hired Wall Street.

Over 100 former bankers from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley are training OpenAI’s models to build real financial models.

The secretive project, “Mercury,” pays $150 an hour for prompts and Excel workflows covering IPOs, M&A, and restructurings, the exact work junior analysts grind through every night.

It’s part of Sam Altman’s bigger plan to make AI indispensable in high-stakes industries like finance, consulting, and law.