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The State of AI Report Predictions index tracks every forecast we've made in the annual State of AI Report since 2018. As a running, public scorecard it lets us check our own calibration over time, and put the year ahead to a live crowd forecast.

53%
hit rate
59 forecasts graded since 2018
66% with partial credit · 10 open for 2026

Calls we got right

2020 → HIT
"Attention-based neural networks move from NLP to computer vision in achieving state of the art results."
Vision Transformers topped ImageNet shortly after, and have anchored frontier vision research ever since.
2020 → HIT
"NVIDIA does not end up completing its acquisition of Arm."
Deal abandoned in Feb 2022 after regulators pushed back.
2024 → HIT
"An open-source alternative to OpenAI o1 surpasses it across a range of reasoning benchmarks."
DeepSeek-R1 outperformed o1 three months later.
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Verdicts and predictions are drawn from the annual State of AI Report decks, 2018-2025. Data sources.

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