25-Year-Old AI Prophet's $45B Fund Wiped Out Before AI Stock Rebound
新智元 · wechat · 2026-07-31
Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund founded by former OpenAI superalignment team member Leopold Aschenbrenner, suffered an epic margin call. The fund previously skyrocketed by 439% in six months, growing from $225 million to nearly $45 billion by heavily leveraging AI supply chain stocks.
However, a sudden plunge in AI tech stocks triggered a retail margin call spiral in South Korea. Due to excessive leverage, the fund faced massive margin calls from banks and was forced to sell about $16 billion of its positions to Citadel at a steep discount. Ironically, those exact AI stocks rebounded violently immediately after the liquidation, meaning he died right before the market resurgence.
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