A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come
Citadel stepped in after lenders demanded repayment and the fund sold about $20 billion in stocks at a discount, people familiar with the matter said.
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Leopold Aschenbrenner rose to the stock market star of Silicon Valley at the age of 20 – and quickly crashed again. With the remains of his fund, he wants to continue to bet on artificial intelligence, but now he is smarter.
Short selling, margin calls and…: How Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness lost $35 bn in a month
Leopold Aschenbrenner, once celebrated as an AI visionary, faced significant losses as his hedge fund's assets plummeted from $45 billion to $10 billion amid a decline in semiconductor stocks.
He was celebrated on Wall Street, but then Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund crashed. You can learn a lot about the risks of the AI boom.
A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come
Suddenly, things ain’t looking great for the AI industry. Or at least for the people pouring loads of money into it. Situational Awareness, a much-hyped AI hedge-fund whose 24-year-old founder Leopold Aschenbrenner preached endless AI gains, basically imploded over this month amid a mass tech sell-off. The Wall Street Journal reported that it’s now down 67 percent in July, forcing Aschenbrenner to desperately seek clients to buy its shares on t…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund managed more than $20 billion. After a price fall, he had to sell large parts of his portfolio to Citadel.
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