India, July 31 -- Leopold Aschenbrenner, the young former OpenAI researcher whose high-flying artificial intelligence fund captured global financial attention, has completely liquidated his public equity portfolio after severe sector downturns triggered an urgent scramble for liquidity, according to CNBC.

The sudden unwind marks a dramatic reversal of fortune for Situational Awareness, a specialised vehicle that had previously soared on aggressive, leveraged bets tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure.

According to market reports broken by financial broadcast networks and verified by institutional insiders, the fund offloaded its massive public stock book in a single block trade to billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel.

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