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Franklin Templeton brings AI into its investment research workflows
Franklin Templeton is integrating AI tools into investment research using an OpenAI Codex-powered connected intelligence layer, as the firm oversees about $1.8 trillion.
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- Franklin Templeton, which oversees roughly $1.8 trillion in assets, is integrating AI tools into its investment research.
- The connected layer draws on research, risk, compliance and trading inputs, and promising projects get security reviews before production.
- The move matters because it links a large asset manager's AI work with tokenized holdings above $3.15 billion onchain.
According to Cryptonews, Franklin Templeton is adding artificial intelligence to how it conducts investment research. Built with AI, the workflows compare research views and risks at the firm, which oversees roughly $1.8 trillion in assets. OpenAI published a customer story about the work in early November 2026.
Katrina Dudley said the firm has combined continuous intelligence with judgment. Earlier efforts to connect AI to databases fell short because they lacked context, according to the reporting. The firm also added agents and a semantic layer, and it uses OpenAI Codex to build a connected intelligence layer.
That layer brings together inputs from research, risk, compliance and trading. The firm's stated aim is to avoid the filter-bubble issue in AI tools, and promising projects receive security reviews before they reach production.
On the tokenization side, Franklin holds more than $3.15 billion in tokenized assets onchain, including over $1.16 billion on Stellar.
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