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Meet the Gen Z AI whiz at the center of a hedge fund meltdown
Leopold Aschenbrenner, founder of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, was fired from OpenAI for sharing internal information and later faced a fund meltdown, leading to the sale of most public assets. He graduated from Columbia at 15 and published a 165-page essay on AI's economic impact.
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