Interactive Brokers has expanded its artificial intelligenceoffering by integrating ChatGPT and Grok into its trading platform, while alsoadding support for options and futures. The move extends the broker’s push intoAI-driven tools and follows its earlier integration with Anthropic’s Claude.The company said on Monday that clients can now connect their existingaccounts to the AI platforms through certified marketplaces without opening newaccounts or sharing sensitive credentials. Once connected, users can interactwith their portfolios using natural language to analyze positions, researchmarkets, and generate trading instructions.Broader AI Access Across Asset ClassesThe latest update increases the range of instrumentsavailable through AI-generated instructions. Clients can now create orders foroptions, futures, and futures options, in addition to equities andexchange-traded funds.Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik said interest inAI-based tools continues to grow among investors. “We continue to see growinginterest from investors in using artificial intelligence as a more natural wayto interact with financial markets,” he said. “Adding ChatGPT and Grok,together with support for options and futures, expands the ways clients cansecurely connect AI tools to Interactive Brokers for research, analysis andexecution.”Continue reading: Interactive Brokers Nears $1 Trillion Client Equity in May as Trading Activity Jumps 47%The broker said users remain in control of all tradesgenerated through AI. The system produces order instructions based on userprompts, but clients must review and approve each instruction before it reachesthe market.Focus on User Control and WorkflowThe tools allow users to perform tasks such as identifyingoptions strategies, analyzing technical indicators like relative strength indexlevels, and comparing portfolio performance against benchmarks. Clients canalso generate futures orders using simple commands.The integrations complement a broader set of AI featuresalready available on Interactive Brokers’ platform. These include AI-poweredscreeners, thematic investment tools, portfolio analysis features, andautomated news summaries tailored to user holdings.The expansion reflects a wider trend among brokers to embedAI into trading workflows, as firms seek to improve efficiency and simplifymarket analysis for clients.IB joins several other firms in its latest move. Robinhoodlaunched “Agentic Trading” accounts that allow customers to connect third‑partyAI agents, such as Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to a dedicated sub‑account.Read more: AI Agents Could Be the Next Payments Revolution: Mastercard and Santander Just Proved ItThese agents can read portfolio data, analyze markets and, under user‑definedparameters, build portfolios or place stock trades, while Robinhood keeps theactivity ring‑fenced within the agentic account and subject to specific safetycontrols. The product positions Robinhood alongside a small butgrowing group of brokers experimenting with AI‑driven or “agentic” tradingworkflows, where clients express their objectives in natural language anddelegate some of the implementation to an AI agent. This article was written by Jared Kirui at www.financemagnates.com.