GoKawiilAI agents will soon have the ability to match the capabilities of human traders, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev predicts.
The power of agentic technology — AI that can carry out tasks for users — has been touted as potentially transformational by many in the tech sector, with industry giants including OpenAI and Anthropic racing to develop such products.
Robinhood unveiled tools in May that allow AI agents to trade stocks and make purchases on users' behalf.
"The idea behind agentic trading…[is] every capability a human can do will be available to an AI agent," Tenev told CNBC's Karen Tso on Thursday.
"I was doing programmatic trading as an institutional player before starting Robinhood, and what you don't realize is a large portion of trades are already automated and AI powered."
"But that type of intelligence and complexity has been out of reach from everyday people," he added.
"The end state of agentic trading at Robinhood is to give the everyday person access to the same tools, the same computation, the same power that institutional investors in high-frequency trading firms have been enjoying for several decades."
On Wednesday, Robinhood said it would launch crypto trading in the U.K. as it expanded its offering in Europe.
Shares of Robinhood were up around 2% in Thursday premarket trading after an 8% pop on Wednesday, taking the group's market cap $98 billion at close. Shares are down around 5% in 2026.