Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund just took a ~$580 million hit in a single session.
Still massively in the green overall — most positions up 8-12x from entry, and the puts are working overtime:
• Bloom Energy
$BE: -$195M (-13.8%)
• SanDisk
$SNDK: -$172M (-10.4%)
• Nebius
$NBIS: -$98M (-4.2%)
• Core Scientific
$CORZ: -$51M (-8.7%)
• IREN
$IREN: -$38M (-7.9%)The 1-3 year thesis he’s playing:
• AI inference will drive the biggest NAND storage boom in history
• On-site power generation becomes the default for hyperscale data centers
• Ex-Bitcoin miners turn into the core of next-gen AI cloud infrastructure Volatility is the price of admission.