Last week, there was a wedding.
The setting?
A coastal town in Northern California.
How big of an affair was this going to be?
This was the event of the Silicon Valley summer.
There were all kinds of top AI and other tech investors and executives coming.
It was sort of the place to be.
You wanted to see and be seen there.
The bride was the chief of staff to the CEO of Anthropic.
And the groom?
Was an investing wunderkind named Leopold Aschenbrenner.
So if I had asked you a month ago, who is Leopold Aschenbrenner, how would you answer that question?
A month ago, there was a consensus that Leo Aschenbrenner was a Nostradamus of some sort, of the AI age.
Our colleague Gregory Zuckerman covers business and investing.
He was young, made predictions.
Some of them seemed to come true.
He had vision.
People deferred to him, so they gave him a lot of money.
Ashton Brenner is 24 years old and just days before his wedding, he was running a hedge fund worth $45 billion.
But this was not like also a normal wedding, right?