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The World’s Best AI Investor is 23 Years Old (Here's What He Owns)

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Nov 18, 2025
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ANECDOTE

From OpenAI Memo To $1B Fund

  • Leopold Aschenbrenner wrote a 165-page essay predicting AI trends after leaving OpenAI.
  • That memo helped him raise $1 billion and launch Situational Awareness Fund at age 23.
INSIGHT

Investing The Choke-Point Way

  • Leopold framed investments around choke points: power, compute hardware, and secure labs.
  • He targets mispriced assets that benefit from a decade-scale shift toward AI compute.
ANECDOTE

The Intel Call That Paid Off

  • Leopold bought massive Intel call positions before the US took a 10% stake in Intel.
  • That move pushed his $1B fund to roughly $1.5B in under three months.
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