Bloomberg makes ASKB available to all Terminal users

Bloomberg says it began rolling out ASKB to users in a limited fashion early this year, and that it is now available to all Terminal users.[2] The company announced ASKB on October 15, 2026, according to Unite.AI, which also says Bloomberg first introduced the interface in beta on February 24, 2026.[1] By the time of the general-availability announcement, more than one-third of Terminal subscribers were using it, according to the Wall Street Journal.[2] That figure indicates existing adoption, but the evidence does not specify how often those subscribers used the interface or what results they obtained.

Bloomberg says ASKB lets users integrate their own content with financial information already in their workflows.[2] That content can include Instant Bloomberg chats, Worksheets and files.[1] Bloomberg says users can ask plain-language questions about their Instant Bloomberg chats and receive answers cited to the source chat; ASKB can draw on three months of a client’s chat history.[1] For securities, it can answer questions about items on a client’s coverage lists and watchlists.[1] For Worksheets, Bloomberg says users can ask about top performers, largest movers and companies reporting earnings in a given week.[1]

Bloomberg Drive in ASKB lets clients upload, organize, search and share files, according to Bloomberg.[1] Bloomberg says a source in Bloomberg Drive remains persistent in future conversations, and answers about users’ files cite the file and passage used.[1] Files are not visible to other users unless the uploader chooses to share them with colleagues at the firm.[1] Bloomberg says its most consistent feedback concerns trust and that every answer carries transparent attribution to where it came from.[1] These features give professionals a way to inspect the cited material, while the evidence does not establish how accurate answers are.

The Wall Street Journal describes ASKB as a generative AI interface sitting on top of a complex system of models and AI agents.[2] Bloomberg says the interface brings an investor’s professional context together with Bloomberg’s market intelligence in one conversation.[1] The company characterizes ASKB as built on Bloomberg rather than Bloomberg building on AI.[1] For teams evaluating it, the practical question is how the interface handles the specific sources they rely on and whether its cited answers support their workflow. The available evidence describes the product’s inputs and citations, but provides no comparative performance measures or accuracy results.