A Silicon Valley wonderkid who built a $45 billion hedge fund by the age of 24 has seen his company unravel just days before his wedding.
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund’s assets have dwindled to an estimated $10 billion after borrowing too much money for AI bets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Aschenbrenner has for the last two years been considered the oracle of AI, after penning a manifesto about the future of the industry which went viral on the internet and rapidly became required reading in the tech world.
The 2024 essay gained praise from the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, while any skeptics of
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