"The 23-year-old's career didn't exactly start auspiciously: He spent time at the philanthropy arm of Sam Bankman-Fried's now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange before a controversial year at OpenAI, where he was ultimately fired. Then, just two months after being booted out of the most influential company in AI, he penned an AI manifesto that went viral-President Trump's daughter Ivanka even praised it on social media-and used it as a launching pad for a hedge fund that now manages more than $1.5 billion."
"It's an astonishing ascent, one that has many asking not just how this German-born early-career AI researcher pulled it off, but whether the hype surrounding him matches the reality. To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment-the coming of human-like artificial general intelligence, China's accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first-more clearly than anyone else."
Leopold Aschenbrenner is a 23-year-old who worked at FTX's philanthropy arm, had a controversial year at OpenAI culminating in his firing, then wrote a viral AI manifesto two months later. The manifesto drew public praise and served as a launchpad for a hedge fund that now manages more than $1.5 billion. Four years after graduating from Columbia, he meets privately with tech CEOs, investors, and policymakers who treat him as a prophetic voice on AI. Some view him as a prescient genius anticipating AGI and geopolitical AI competition; others see him as an inexperienced newcomer packaging hype into profitable financial influence.
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