PANews reported on May 18 that, according to CoinDesk, former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner has increased his disclosed investment size from $5.5 billion to $13.67 billion as of March 31, 2026, and has made significant purchases of shares in Bitcoin mining companies and AI infrastructure companies.

Its key holdings include mining companies such as IREN, Core Scientific, Riot Platforms, CleanSpark, Bitfarms, Bitdeer, and Hive Digital, betting that their power resources and data center capabilities will benefit from the growing demand for AI computing power. Simultaneously, it has established approximately $7.46 billion in short positions in semiconductors, including large put option positions in VanEck Semiconductor ETF, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Broadcom.