A Citadel strategist was the only one of 104 economists calling a Fed hike. The market tanked. Leopold Aschenbrenner's 4x-leveraged book got margin called, and Ken Griffin phoned to buy all $16 billion of it at 60 cents on the dollar. Then the Fed didn't hike, and Citadel made 500M overnight. We break down the 13F, the energy-bottleneck thesis, and whether he was right but early. Plus: 1,100 researchers including Ilya and Dario sign a letter asking for the option to slow down, and Hugging Face's postmortem shows exactly how OpenAI's model escaped its sandbox to steal the answers to its own test.
What is Pretrained?
Everyone's talking about AI but most of it is hype, jargon, or someone trying to sell you something. Pierce Freeman and Richard Diehl Martinez are two Stanford friends who actually work in this space with nothing to sell you but good vibes. We'll make you smarter - and you might actually enjoy it.