科技股多头丹·艾夫斯（Dan Ives）周三提交申请，拟成立一只基金，旨在让投资者能够投资于推动人工智能热潮的私营企业。
Technology bull Dan Ives on Wednesday filed to create a fund aimed at giving investors access to private companies powering the artificial intelligence boom.
据艾夫斯担任合伙人兼分析师的 Yorkville Ives & Co. 公司称，这只名为“艾夫斯超人工智能机会”（Ives Ultra AI Opportunities）的封闭式基金将以每股10美元的价格发售2000万股普通股，筹集2亿美元的总收益。
The Ives Ultra AI Opportunities closed-end fund will sell 20 million shares of common stock at $10 apiece to raise gross proceeds of $200 million, according to Yorkville Ives & Co., where Ives is a partner and analyst.
“在这场人工智能革命中，许多领军企业都是私营公司，”艾夫斯在接受 CNBC 采访时表示。该基金旨在打造“一个公开的投资工具，以买入其中一些优秀的私营公司”。该基金专注于在人工智能及其基础设施领域发挥作用的后期私营企业，将在纽约证券交易所上市，股票代码为“IVAI”，总年度费用率为总资产的3.1%。
"In this AI revolution, so many of the companies leading it will be private," Ives told CNBC. The fund aims to create "a public vehicle to buy some of these great private companies." The fund, focusing on private, late-stage companies playing a role in AI and its infrastructure, will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker "IVAI," and will charge total annual expenses of 3.1% on gross assets.
根据监管文件，该基金约80%的净资产将用于投资以人工智能为核心的企业，重点是“位于美国境内的私营后期人工智能公司，以及少量非美国公司”，同时也包括美国上市企业。投资组合中最多可有15%的资金用于投资私募股权基金，以进一步增加对人工智能企业的敞口。
Some 80% of fund net assets are earmarked for companies centered on AI, with an emphasis on "private late-stage AI Companies, located in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in non-U.S. companies," as well as publicly-traded U.S. companies, according to a regulatory filing As much as 15% of the portfolio could be invested in private funds to further gain exposure to AI companies.
艾夫斯表示，投资者曾多次询问他如何投资那些助力人工智能建设的私营企业。艾夫斯在今年7月之前一直担任韦德布什证券（Wedbush Securities）的技术研究主管，他认为私营企业将是“金鹅”，并在未来几年引领人工智能领域的大部分支出。
Ives said investors have asked him how to gain exposure to private companies that are helping drive the AI buildout. The head of technology research at Wedbush Securities until July, Ives said private companies will be "the golden goose" and lead much of the spending on AI in coming years.
艾夫斯将该基金宣传为首个投资于私营人工智能科技公司的基金，这一群体此前在很大程度上对散户投资者是封闭的。
Opening access Ives billed the fund as the first to invest in private AI tech companies, a group that's largely been closed to retail traders.
根据 DealMaker 在7月份委托进行的一项针对2000多名成年人的调查显示，约三分之二的美国人认为他们无法投资于那些高增长的私营企业。尽管今年股市屡创新高，但略多于半数的受访者表示，他们认为股票市场并非积累财富的最佳场所。艾夫斯表示：“不应该只有硅谷的少数人才能拥有这些公司。”
About two-thirds of Americans believe they aren't able to access the highest-growth companies that are private, according to a July survey of more than 2,000 adults commissioned by DealMaker. A little more than half of respondents said they believed that the stock market was not the best place to build wealth, despite its rally to new records this year. "It shouldn't just be a handful of people in Silicon Valley that could own these companies," Ives said.
艾夫斯的基金将在人工智能行业面临内外呼声、要求在日益增长的安全担忧中放缓创新步伐之际首次亮相。作为人工智能行业的长期拥护者，艾夫斯认为，那些呼声不应让关注该行业长期生存能力的投资者感到担忧。
The Ives fund will debut just as the AI industry faces internal and external calls to slow the pace of innovation amid mounting safety concerns. Ives, a long-time champion of the AI trade, said those appeals shouldn't worry investors looking at the sector's long-term viability.
领先的人工智能开发商 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 今年早些时候都已秘密提交了上市申请。但 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼最近排除了 ChatGPT 平台在 2026 年进行首次公开募股的可能性，理由是关于增加安全护栏的争论。
Leading AI developers OpenAI Anthropic earlier this year both filed confidentially to go public. But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently ruled out a 2026 initial public offering for the ChatGPT platform, citing the debate over adding safety guardrails.
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