Qaike Vendor Landscape: October 2026

218 AI vendors for hedge funds and private markets, two generations of tools, $7.6B of funding and the SaaSpocalypse: our October 2026 landscape review.
Buy, Not Build: Buy-side AI’s Late-Summer Acquisition Wave

Three acquisitions in three weeks show fund AI vendors buying capability rather than building it, plus what OpenBB’s open-source pivot says about the pressure underneath.