Overview: 8Kensho: S&P Global’s Hub for AI Innovation and Transformation
Kensho
Acquired in 2018, Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. Our vision is to help S&P Global leverage cutting-edge tech to become the world’s most trusted and innovative data, benchmarks, and ratings company in the world. Kensho works in partnership with S&P Global’s divisions to drive industry-leading solutions and deliver value for customers.
Kensho solutions
Kensho develops powerful AI capabilities that underlie many of S&P Global’s offerings, enabling innovation and improving insights for our customers. This includes building GenAI experiences, getting our data AI-ready, and laying the groundwork for agentic AI workflows.
Research and innovation
Kensho is committed to empowering S&P Global and our customers with cutting-edge AI advancements. This includes both pure research projects to advance AI industry knowledge as well as employing our cutting-edge AI findings to solve specific industry challenges. Kensho is currently exploring important industry topics such as reasoning LLMs, tokenization, figure extraction, and audio data processing.
Key highlights from 2024:
Kensho is committed to empowering S&P Global and our customers with cutting-edge AI advancements.
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patent granted for a new entity-linking method
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research papers published
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awards received at top NLP conferences
- In 2024-2025, we collaborated with researchers from NVIDIA, the University of Maryland, Ben-Gurion University, and Harvard.
- Launched S&P AI Benchmarks by Kensho, a series of benchmarks that evaluate AI systems including LLMs for business and finance use cases.
- Cutting-edge agent research:
Kensho is focused on pushing the boundaries of industry research and exploration. We are developing agents, such as deep research agents that perform advanced financial analyst tasks; a text-to-SQL agent that generates SQL code, and Kensho Grounding Agent to enable trusted data retrieval. Beyond AI, we explore other frontier technologies in our commitment to maintaining S&P Global’s technological leadership.
Kensho is committed to empowering S&P Global and our customers with cutting-edge AI advancements