Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster. Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its quarterly portfolio update revealed on
Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio last month, but the AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper, according to The Wall
In the high-flying world of AI investing, sometimes you get the bull, and sometimes you get the horns. After a long ride on the bull, Gen Z hedge-funder Leopold Aschenbrenner found out last week how quickly things can shift, even for a whiz kid once called the “Nostradamus of AI.” It’s a story that was