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Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Mostaque: Only five or six foundation model companies will survive
“I think that there's only going to be five or six foundation model companies in the world in three years, five years. ... I think it's going to be us, NVIDIA Google, Microsoft OpenAI, and Meta and Apple probably are the ones that train these models.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Lemkin: OpenAI will likely cancel or pause its hardware project
“Listen, if I had to breathe the tea leaves, hardware is probably on the bubble. This was one of Sam's initiatives that made sense when everything was working and OpenAI had an unassailable lead over, over its competitors, right? Now everything's, you know, we …”
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2029
Gurski: Five or more $10B+ consumer subscription companies will exist by 2029
“I think we will have them because this business model is growing, and you might just check numbers of Apple, and you may see that Apple got from consumer subscription in 2017 and five billion, and it's projected that we'll get maybe one hundred billion or so n…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Seibert: Open-source LLMs will become the 'Android' to OpenAI's 'Apple'
“So the closed may win in terms of having the most advanced model, but I think the Apple versus Android comparison is exactly accurate. So you're going to have something proprietary that might be best because it can be fully vertically integrated. They have, th…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2027
O'Driscoll: Apple will raise iPhone prices rather than accept lower margins
“Specifically what it's going to mean is Apple is clearly decided wisely not to swallow the loss and lower their margins. They're just going to raise prices. And they'll sell a few less iPhones because it's probably, you know, there's some price elasticity. And…”
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Prediction Open · timeframe May 2031
Weitzman: Apple will launch a Whisperflow competitor rather than acquire it
“Does Apple buy Whisperflow? No. Apple launches a competitor.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
O'Driscoll: Rising memory chip costs will drive up iPhone prices next year
“I think that you're going to see some impact of that right down to the price of your iPhone next year.”