Kronos: Financial Markets Foundation Model Surges to 21K Stars at +451/Day — AAAI 2026 Accepted
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shiyu-coder/Kronos has reached 21,412 stars with +451 stars/day velocity, trending on GitHub today. Kronos is a decoder-only foundation model pre-trained on 12 billion K-line records from 45 global exchanges, using a novel two-stage tokenizer that quantizes OHLCV data into hierarchical discrete tokens. Accepted at AAAI 2026, it claims 93% RankIC improvement over the leading time-series foundation model and 87% over the best non-pre-trained baseline for price series forecasting. Live BTC/USDT demo available.