2025 US Open News

The METR time horizon will exceed 10 hours.

xAI IPO

FrontierMath Tier 1-3 >= 80%

FrontierMath Tier 4 >= 80%

Anthropic releases Claude 5

Schmidhuber will complain about people not citing his work properly

Yudkowsky will publish a post on Lesswrong

OpenAI will introduce ads to ChatGPT in some form

Zvi will write a blog post mentioning SSI

Jensen Huang continuously CEO of Nvidia through EOY 2026

Dario Amodei will continuously be CEO of Anthropic until the end of the year

The METR time horizon will exceed 20 hours

I will think that computer use has significantly improved since 2025

Sam Altman will continuously be CEO of OpenAI until the end of the year.

An AGI lab will be valued at >= $1T

Chatgpt will write an explicit sex story without jailbreaks

Microsoft+Google+Amazon+Meta capex will increase by >=30% vs 2025

Ilya Sutskever will be on a podcast for more than 30 mins

Anthropic IPO

Thinking Machines will train and release their own model

Ilya Sutskever will continuously be CEO of SSI until the end of the year

SSI will have an update listed at https://ssi.inc/updates

A Solid Result in FrontierMath: Open Problems is solved by AI

Google will outperform the S&P

The METR time horizon will exceed 40 hours

OpenAI releases GPT-6

OpenAI IPO

Nvidia will outperform the S&P

Epoch Capabilities Index >= 170

My median ASI timelines will shorten

Grok 5 will be released

I will think that there has been significant progress towards models which use neuralese/recurrence

I will think that there have been significant advances in continual learning

I will meet someone who has an AI companion

At least 3 people will do an anti-AI hunger strike

I will ride on a tesla robotaxi

Epoch AI will estimate that there has been a training run using more than 5e27 FLOP

There will be an international treaty/agreement centered on AI

ARC-AGI 3 Semi-private >= 50%

OpenAI will announce some kind of hardware product

Yann Lecun’s AMI lab will release an open weights model of some kind

An LLM will beat me at chess

Metaculus will predict AGI before 2030

Anthropic releases Claude 6

Any of [OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta] will offer a subscription plan costing >= $1,000/month.

There will be federal AI Safety legislation which I think is net positive

Any of [Coreweave, Nebius, Lambda] will be acquired

Anthropic will release a model classified as ASL-4

Thinking machines will post at least 10 blog posts at https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/

There will be a credible leak about SSI strategy

My P(doom) at EOY (resolves to %)

There will be clear evidence of egregious scheming in the wild

An open millennium prize problem is solved, involving some AI assistance

An open source model will be released with 5T+ total parameters

SSI will release a product

Any of [Coreweave, Nebius, Lambda] declare bankruptcy

The bubble collapses in devastating fashion

AAA with LLM powered NPCs releases on Steam

I will see a humanoid robot walking around in a non-demo setting

The weights of a closed source model from [OA, XAI, GDM, Anthropic] will be stolen/leaked

SSI will raise >= $1B in a funding round

The US will allow selling some sort of Blackwell chip to china

I will think that a Chinese model is the best coding model for a period of at least a week.

I will think that METR time horizon continues to be an important benchmark

An LLM will beat me at Shogi

There will be an AI protest involving more than 100k people

An AGI lab will be valued at >= $5T

SSI will raise >=$10B in a funding round

An open source model will top the Chatbot Arena in the 'text' category

Any of [OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta] releases an LLM (general-purpose or code-only) pretrained largely on licensed data

There will be an AI capabilities pause lasting at least a month involving frontier companies

Any of [OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, xAI, Meta] claim to have reached AGI

Anthropic will release a model classified as ASL-5

OpenAI will sell their own chips to external customers

I will think that a model released by Meta is the best coding model for a period of at least a week.

Grok 6 will be released

Anthropic will release an image/video model

SSI will be valued at >= $100B

I will watch a fully AI-generated film lasting at least an hour

Any of [OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta] will offer a subscription plan costing >= $10,000/month.

Anthropic will introduce ads to Claude in some form

Epoch Capabilities Index >= 185

An AGI lab will be fined >= $10B

Largest distributed training run exceeds 1e27 FLOP according to Epoch AI

China will invade Taiwan according to metaculus

I will think that SSI has the best coding model in the world for a period of at least a week

S&P 500 will rise by more than 50%

Largest distributed training run exceeds 1e26 FLOP

Epoch Capabilities Index >= 200

Yudkowsky will publish a new book

SSI IPO

S&P 500 will fall by more than 50%

US unemployment rate reaches 10% due in part to AI

SSI will be valued at >= $1 T

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NO

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2027-2028

2029-2030

2031-2032

2033-2034

2035-2036

2037-2038

YES

NO

YES

Gambling losses deduction remains limited to 90% as laid out in OBBB

Congress explicitly intervenes to restore 100% deduction (example Rep Titus FAIR BET act enacted)

Mainstream pro gamblers move primarily to prediction markets for tax treatment

Administrative action classifies sports prediction markets as gambling for tax purposes

Court ruling classifies sports prediction markets as gambling for tax purposes

Legislation classifies sports prediction markets as gambling for tax purposes

Major sports book goes bankrupt because of OBBB by 2027-01-01

NO