Why Leopold Aschenbrenner is betting big on these 6 stocks ?? :
1. $LITE (Lumentum)
Core product: EML lasers, OCS (Optical Circuit Switches), CPO lasers
$LITE Thesis: order book is SOLD OUT through 2028
→ $2B Nvidia investment + purchasing deal
→ OCS backlog >$400M, 150% CAGR to 2028
→ CPO: new multi-hundred-million $ order just landed
2. $COHR (Coherent)
Core product: 800G/1.6T transceivers, InP lasers, OCS, CPO
$COHR book-to-bill just hit 4x. Demand is obliterating supply.
→ $2B Nvidia deal for U.S. optics manufacturing
→ 10+ OCS customers, CPO mega-order just received
→ Supports SiPh, InP & VCSEL — hedged for types of Hyperscalers
3. $CRWV (CoreWeave)
Core product: GPU cloud for AI workloads (Nvidia H100/B200 clusters)
$CRWV just locked in a $21B deal with Meta through 2032.
→ 850MW active today → 1.7GW by end of 2026
→ $66.8B total backlog
→ First Nvidia Vera Rubin deployments included
4. $CORZ (Core Scientific)
Core product: AI/HPC data center hosting (high-density colocation)
$CORZ went from Bitcoin miner → AI infrastructure landlord.
→ 590MW contracted with $CRWV = $10B+ over 12 years
→ $2B in infra installed across 4 sites in 2025
→ $CRWV acquisition pending ($9B deal)
5. $APLD (Applied Digital)
Core product: AI data center campuses (long-term leases)
$APLD has $16B in contracted lease revenue across 600MW.
→ $11B, 15-yr deal with $CRWV (Polaris Forge 1)
→ $5B, 15-yr deal with undisclosed hyperscaler (Polaris Forge 2)
→ Revenue up 250% YoY last quarter
6. $BE (Bloom Energy)
Core product: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) — behind-the-meter power for AI data centers, deployable in 90 days vs years for grid connections
Latest deals:
∙Oracle agreed to purchase up to 2.8GW of fuel-cell power from Bloom to supply AI data centers, with 1.2GW already contracted
∙$5B strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to deploy SOFCs for AI infrastructure globally
∙$7.65B in data center contracts secured in a single 90-day window in early 2026
∙Total backlog ~$20B, up 65% YoY. Product backlog ~$6B, up 140% YoY.
📈2026 revenue guidance: 50%+ growth
∙Recently delivered a hyperscale AI factory order in 55 days against a 90-day commitment .