Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author | Azuma (@azuma_eth)
No Confidential Treatment Requested! No Complete Sell-Off! The 13F filing for Situational Awareness LP, the fund run by the new "AI Stock God" Leopold Aschenbrenner, was officially published this evening.
- Odaily Note: For details about Leopold Aschenbrenner's personal story, see 'SBF's Junior, Turned $225 Million into $5.5 Billion in One Year'.
This means the first assumption in our morning article 'Fastest Reveal Expected Today, the Entire Internet Awaits the 24-Year-Old 'AI Stock God's' Version of the Answer' was accurate. Situational Awareness LP indeed submitted its filing quite late on the May 15th deadline, causing the SEC to be unable to publish the document on its website that day. The market had to wait through another weekend until the SEC resumed work on Monday to see the fund's holdings disclosure.
According to this latest 13F filing, as of March 31, 2026, the nominal total value of Situational Awareness LP's holdings has increased to $13.7 billion, more than doubling (up 148%) from $5.52 billion as of December 31 last year.
- Odaily Note: It's important to note that in the statistical methodology of US stock 13F filings, the market value of option assets is typically shown as the "Notional Value" of the underlying stock, not the actual premium cost paid by the fund. This means that although the fund has built a semiconductor hedge wall with hundreds of billions in nominal asset value, its actual cash cost consumed (maximum potential loss) is much smaller, representing a typical high-leverage macro hedge.
Additionally, this quarter, net inflows accounted for 32.51% of the fund's total holdings value. This indicates the fund's explosive growth isn't solely due to portfolio appreciation but also includes very substantial external new capital subscriptions (i.e., new capital injection).
Frenetic Portfolio Adjustment
The filing also shows that Situational Awareness LP executed drastic portfolio adjustments in Q1.
- New Purchases: 23 stocks (including options);
- Added To: 9 stocks;
- Sold Out Of: 10 stocks (including options);
- Reduced Holdings In: 4 stocks (including options).
New Purchases: Sixty Percent of Portfolio Hedging Semiconductor Downturn
- Odaily Note: The chart above only covers new stock purchases valued over $100 million. For all 23 new stock purchases, click the "portal" to view.
First, let's look at the new purchase activity, which is the most shocking piece of information in Situational Awareness LP's entire 13F report — in Q1, the fund conducted systematic risk hedging on the AI semiconductor and computing hardware sector through large-scale Put option positions.
Let's look at the data directly:
- SMH PUT (VanEck Semiconductor Core ETF Put Option): 14.94% weighting (market value $2.04 billion) — Largest new position;
- NVDA PUT (NVIDIA Put Option): 11.47% weighting (market value $1.56 billion) — Second largest new position;
- ORCL PUT (Oracle Put Option): 7.84% weighting;
- AVGO PUT (Broadcom Put Option): 7.36% weighting;
- AMD PUT (AMD Put Option): 7.09% weighting;
Just the above top five Put option holdings account for 48.7% of Situational Awareness LP's $13.7 billion nominal total holdings value. Adding the subsequent Put options on Micron (MU), TSMC (TSM), ASML (ASML), and Intel (INTC), over 60% of the fund's nominal portfolio is betting on or hedging against a decline or severe volatility in core AI hardware stocks.
It's also noteworthy that Situational Awareness LP simultaneously bought both Call and Put options on the same stock. For example, while buying Micron Puts (MU PUT, 4.27%), it also bought MU CALLs (3.09%); while buying TSMC Puts (TSM PUT, 3.91%), it also bought TSM CALLs (2.59%).
This is a two-way bet strategy commonly used by hedge funds. It suggests the fund believes Micron (memory chips) and TSMC (foundry) may experience stock price movements far exceeding market expectations in upcoming 2026 earnings reports or industry cycles due to geopolitics or extreme supply-demand imbalances — significant one-way volatility large enough can generate profits on both sides.
Added To: Still Favors SanDisk, CRWV in Common Stock
Regarding additions, Situational Awareness LP opted for common stock rather than options, increasing holdings in 9 stocks.
In Q1, Situational Awareness LP added a small amount of 85,000 shares of SanDisk (SNDK), bringing total holdings to 1.14 million shares, with a holding value as high as $724 million, accounting for 5.30% of the entire investment portfolio. This is one of the very few super-heavyweight positions in Situational Awareness LP's portfolio held entirely in common stock form.
Another noteworthy action is that Situational Awareness LP significantly increased its holdings by over 1.07 million shares of CoreWeave (CRWV) in Q1, pushing the holding value to $556 million, a 4.07% weighting. CoreWeave is one of the most closely watched AI GPU cloud service infrastructure companies currently, and an important partner in NVIDIA's ecosystem. After its IPO, Situational Awareness LP swiftly incorporated it into its core portfolio and aggressively increased its position. This indicates that while the fund is shorting NVIDIA's short-term valuation (via PUTs), it remains extremely bullish on cloud giants that directly convert GPUs into computing power for renting to various models.
Furthermore, Situational Awareness LP also added to positions in KEEL, IREN, APLD, RIOT, CLSK, BTDR, and other computing or power infrastructure companies, continuing the logic championed by Leopold Aschenbrenner that "electricity is the new oil."
Sold Out Of: Unwinding Intel Call Leverage, Exiting Optical Communications
Regarding complete sell-offs, Situational Awareness LP's biggest move was completely unwinding its leverage from Intel Call options (INTC CALL). In the previous disclosure period, Situational Awareness LP had bet over 13% of its portfolio on Intel Call options (a staggering 20.23 million option contracts), a highly leveraged directional bet. This quarter, it completely sold out, shifting to holding a small common stock position (0.07% weighting).
Additionally, Situational Awareness LP completely exited LITE (8.68% weighting last period) and COHR (1.61% weighting last quarter) in Q1. LITE and COHR are both global top-tier optical communication chip and optical module (Optical Transceivers) giants. This exit indicates Situational Awareness LP is withdrawing from the AI optical module/network hardware sector.
Situational Awareness LP also sold out of CIFR (2.80% weighting last period) and HUT (0.72% weighting last period) in Q1. Both are cryptocurrency mining companies (including CORZ, which was reduced in the next section). Considering the additions to similar companies like RIOT, CLSK, BTDR, this is likely routine portfolio adjustment.
Reduced Holdings: Substantial Profit-Taking on BE
Finally, looking at the reductions, Bloom Energy (BE) was the largest holding disclosed in Situational Awareness LP's previous 13F filing. In Q1, the fund reduced its position by 3.59 million shares, causing its weighting to plummet from 15.87% last quarter to 6.42%.
Bloom Energy focuses on solid oxide fuel cell technology and is a core target for data center "on-site power" that bypasses traditional grids. Considering the remaining position is still significant, the reduction likely doesn't mean Situational Awareness LP is no longer bullish on the company, but more likely routine profit-taking.
CoreWeave Call options (CRWV CALL) were Situational Awareness LP's second-largest reduction (weighting plummeted from 14.04% to 1.03%). As mentioned earlier, the fund has shifted to holding CRWV in common stock form, so this is more about reducing leverage.
Situational Awareness LP also reduced its holdings in Core Scientific (CORZ) by 2.74 million shares, lowering its weighting from 7.59% to 2.84%. CORZ is a leading Bitcoin miner transitioning to AI computing power hosting. However, considering Situational Awareness LP added other miners still in transition with potentially more attractive valuations this quarter, reducing CORZ seems more like partial profit-taking.
What Is the 'AI Stock God' Really Thinking?
If looking only at the surface data of this 13F, many might draw a simple, crude conclusion — Leopold Aschenbrenner, who once proclaimed "AGI by 2027," has turned bearish on AI.
But the reality is clearly not that simple. In Situational Awareness LP's portfolio structure, there are actually two seemingly contradictory, yet highly unified, main themes.
- On one side, there is extreme vigilance towards short-term valuation bubbles in the 'chip sector.' Situational Awareness LP has used Put option positions of staggering nominal size to essentially "buy crash insurance" for almost the entire AI semiconductor industry chain, including NVIDIA and Broadcom;
- On the other side, there is a near-fanatical optimism about long-term AI infrastructure demand. Whether it's CoreWeave, Bloom Energy, or a series of power, transformer, and data center-related companies, they all essentially point to the same deterministic logic — AI's computing power war has entered the deep end.
This is perhaps Situational Awareness LP's core judgment at present. What will truly be scarce in the future may not be GPU chips themselves, but the energy, power systems, and data center infrastructure supporting these GPUs' continuous operation. GPU production can keep expanding, and advanced processes will eventually ramp up, but megawatt-level power supply capacity, transformers, transmission systems, and large-scale data center construction cycles are difficult to replicate simultaneously in a short time. Compared to the 'selling picks and shovels' logic already fully priced by the market, Leopold Aschenbrenner seems more focused on where the real bottlenecks might emerge in the next phase of the AI industry.
This also explains why Situational Awareness LP is simultaneously buying massive semiconductor Put options to hedge against severe volatility risks in the AI hardware sector, while continuing to heavily invest in GPU cloud services, power, and computing infrastructure assets.
In a sense, this 13F is less a simple holdings disclosure and more like Leopold Aschenbrenner's roadmap judgment for the next phase of evolution in the AI industry chain.
When a genius investor who rose to fame rapidly by All-in on AI starts deploying billions in nominal positions to buy insurance for the AI sector, it at least indicates one thing — even the most steadfast AI bulls of this era have begun to take volatility seriously.
