How Anthropic's IPO could turn Leopold Aschenbrenner's best asset into his biggest risk
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Leopold Aschenbrenner's pitch for why he — a college-aged German with no prior finance experience — was the best choice for an investor hoping to nail the artificial intelligence wave revolved around his network. "Right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness," the former OpenAI employee wrote in his 2024 viral essay "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead." "Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them." Now those same connections — chief among them, his wife, Avital Balwit, the chief of staff…
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