On Wall Street, young faces often attract significant attention. Among them, a 23-year-old investor named Leopold Aschenbrenner is making waves in the financial world with remarkable performance. This prodigy, who once worked at OpenAI, has successfully managed a fund worth $1.5 billion within just one year. Surprisingly, his fund achieved a return rate of 47% in the first half of the year, far exceeding the average on Wall Street, resulting in an impressive 700% return.

Leopold founded a fund called "Situational Awareness" in San Francisco last mid-year. With a deep understanding of AI and accurate market insights, his investment strategy mainly focuses on artificial intelligence semiconductors, infrastructure, and energy sectors. At the same time, he actively pays attention to startups such as Anthropic to ensure he can seize future investment opportunities.

Notably, Leopold not only excels in fund management but also attracts a group of financial elites as investors, such as the founders of payment company Stripe, Patrick and John Collison, and Daniel Gross, a member of Meta's superintelligence team. The endorsement from these prominent investors undoubtedly adds significant credibility and attractiveness to his fund.

Leopold's success is not accidental. Last year, he became popular online due to a report titled "Situational Awareness." In the report, he boldly predicted that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) would be achieved by 2027. This prediction about the development of future technology not only attracted widespread attention but also laid the foundation for his investment philosophy. He once said on a podcast: "We will have stronger market sensitivity than Wall Street, which will make our investments perform well."

Although Leopold's investment journey seems smooth, it was not without challenges. In April 2024, he was fired for leaking internal security vulnerabilities at OpenAI. Soon after, the superalignment team he was part of also announced its dissolution. However, it was after this experience that he transformed his thoughts and market insights into investment actions, achieving the current outstanding achievements.

In the future, whether Leopold can continue to create brilliance in the investment field is something we should continue to pay attention to.