How a Trading Firm Ships New AI Models the Same Day - Noyan Tokgozoglu, Optiver

At Optiver, a change rolled out to traders shows up in P&L within hours, so AI has to move fast and still be measurable. Noyan Tokgozoglu, head of AI Engineering, walks through Optiver's on-prem AI platform: an inference gateway for routing and budgets, same-day adoption of new frontier models benchmarked on internal golden sets, a model- and harness-agnostic "meta harness", and how they got AI spend back under control after the summer's big model releases. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:22 What a market maker does 1:00 Feedback in hours, not quarters 2:53 Platform principles 5:11 The AI platform stack 7:06 Shipping frontier models the same day 8:31 Staying model and harness agnostic 9:53 Getting AI spend under control 13:54 Meeting users where they are 16:11 Q&A Noyan Tokgozoglu https://optiver.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!