Bloomberg's AI assistant ASKB is now in beta for roughly a third of the Terminal's 375,000 subscribers, CTO Shawn Edwards told Wired in an interview published this week. The chatbot-style interface, first detailed in Bloomberg's February rollout, runs on a mix of commercial and open-weight language models.
The agentic part is the pitch. An analyst can describe pre-earnings prep in plain language and get back a structured workflow pulling fundamentals, sell-side estimates, and Street sentiment in minutes. Templates can be scheduled or triggered by market conditions. ASKB also exposes the underlying BQL code so users can extend queries in Excel or BQuant.
"These tools are not magical," Edwards told Wired, which is rare framing from a vendor selling AI. He described ASKB as letting one analyst test ten ideas in the time it used to take to run one. That speedup is self-reported; beta feedback so far comes from Bloomberg's own clients.
Bloomberg laid out an expanded roadmap on April 16, adding integrations with portfolio analytics and Second Measure credit card data. No general availability date has been announced.
Bottom Line
ASKB beta access sits at roughly 125,000 Terminal subscribers, with Bloomberg declining to commit to a full release date.
Quick Facts
- 375,000 total Bloomberg Terminal subscribers
- Roughly 125,000 users in ASKB beta (about one-third)
- First announced February 23, 2026
- Roadmap update published April 16, 2026
- Built on a mix of commercial and open-weight LLMs
