Calacanis: OpenAI's Polymarket odds for 2026 best model spiked above 20%
“The ratings here from Polymarket, which company has the best AI model, by the end of twenty-twenty-six, OpenAI's chances just spiked from low single digits now to over 20%.”
Frankel: Kalshi and Polymarket are essentially gambling like DraftKings
“It has to be, right? Like it, I mean, if you look at like Kelsey and Polymarket, what's the difference there between DraftKings and Betway? And they seem very similar to me.”
Park: Simile Differentiates From Prediction Markets by Modeling Causality
“Where I see similarly come in is we are a company that is not just interested in what's going to happen, but more on how it's going to happen and why.”
O'Driscoll: Intercontinental Exchange owns ~20% stake in Polymarket
“ICE as in the owners of NASDAQ, the, I think, Intercontinental Exchange has a big ownership stake in Polymarket. Why that's relevant is that's a company that runs ICE that runs stock trading and, you know, real financial markets taking a significant, I think, …”
O'Driscoll: Political prediction markets are too small to build $100B companies
“I don't think predicting who's the next Who's going to win the general election in the UK or who's going to be the next president in the US is a huge, enormous, ginormous business. I love it. I find it fun. It's actually the most interesting part of Polymarket…”
Nate Silver discloses that he consults for Polymarket
“I consult for Polymarket, I should say.”
FOMO Would Build Prediction Markets on Polymarket or Kalshi
“We haven't integrated prediction markets yet, and I'm not sure exactly where it fits in on our roadmap. I think it's very interesting there. I think our first version of the product would be built on something like a poly market in Calci.”
Coogan: Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Build Prediction Market App 'Arena'
“Zuckerberg directed Meta to build a prediction markets app, which is a wild shift. The experimental app internally called Arena would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction ma…”
Sam Lessin: Prediction markets must use real money to matter
“Well, we've talked about this like six times, and it has to be real money. It's not a thing if it's not real money.”
Britt Morin: Women represent less than a quarter of Kalshi and Polymarket users
“Women are only like Less than a quarter of Kalshi and Polymarket right now really hasn't like struck with most of the women I know.”
Lessin: Polymarket directed influencers to fake trades and earnings
“But Polymarket has been directing influencers to make fake videos about fake trades and reporting fake earnings for their influencer program.”
Randle: Prediction markets show 70% odds of Tesla-SpaceX merger in two years
“If you look at the poly market Calci odds on a Tesla SpaceX merger, again, you know, not, not that those markets are so big that they're that indicative, but I think the probability that they have on there is something like 70% in the next two years or somethi…”
Lessin: Polymarket Launched Its Own Branded Physical Bar
“Polymarket launched a bar, I think, to do, like, it's literally a Polymarket bar.”
Calacanis: Polymarket gives 99% odds May inflation exceeds 4.2%
“Polymarket says, 99% chance May inflation comes in at 4.2% or higher.”
Lessin: Polymarket Odds of Elon Musk Beating OpenAI Have Tanked
“After Altman's latest testimony, the odds that Elon wins this thing have tanked, according to Polymarket and the prediction market.”
Polymarket gives Elon Musk a 41% chance of winning against OpenAI
“Polymarket gives Elon a 41% chance of winning the case.”
Palihapitiya: Polymarket odds place Elon Musk's chance of winning at 42-43%
“It's effectively at 42 or 43% that Elon wins.”
Kalanick uses AI agents to autonomously bet on Kalshi and Polymarket
“I've got a side quest where I'm just investing. I have agents investing and betting on Kalshi and Polly and, you know, these other places. And it's silly how dumb the agents are, even their best agents, to be honest.”
O'Driscoll: Polymarket pricing gave SpaceX a 50-60% chance at $2T IPO
“Polymarket said the probability of SpaceX being worth two trillion dollars on the IPO went up to 50, 60%, right? From a lower number, right?”
Jake Paul: Betr hits 1M paying users and partners with Polymarket
“We just crossed one million paying users and just partnered with poly market to bring predictions into our super app.”
Calacanis: Polymarket gives 57% odds of US forces entering Iran
“Polymarket. 27% chance that U.S. Forces Enter Iran by the end of March and 57% by the end of the year.”
Immerman: Kalshi is number one across users, revenue, and volume
“And today they're number one across users, revenue, volume, any metric that, that anyone would care about.”
Housel: Platforms like Robinhood, Kalshi, and Polymarket won't help this generation
“I don't think we'll look back at those kind of tools as having helped a generation of people.”
GPT-5.3 Codex generated a functional Polymarket competitor in under four minutes
“So Codex built a competitor to Polymarket in three minutes and 47 seconds.”
Sacks: Odds of Trump acquiring Greenland are higher than 17%
“And I think the odds of him pulling this off are much greater than 17%.”
Kantrowitz says an insider netted over $400,000 betting on Maduro's capture.
“The Maduro capture was on was on these prediction markets, and somebody who, it seems like they had under knowledge, they invested 30,000 dollars on Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, the same investor made 436,000 dollar…”
Friedberg: Polymarket will be the best performing asset of 2026
“Polymarket. Polymarket's on a tear. Network effects. Replacing media. Replacing markets.”
Calacanis: Retail gambling and prediction market platforms will be 2026's top asset
“My pick for best performing asset will be the Robinhood Polymarket prize picks, gambling, wagering space because people will be able to have a little cash around to make some bets. You could buy Coinbase in there too, I guess.”
Lessin: Polymarket Odds on California Wealth Tax Passing Jumped Significantly
“The polymarket odds of it passing have jumped significantly.”
Mignano suggests Polymarket could be an upcoming IPO candidate
“Polymarket. I know a competitor, but also raised a very big round, partnered with New York Stock Exchange, ICE. Maybe they'll go public.”
Dalio predicts investors will use prediction markets to hedge equity portfolios
“Mostly different act events to bet on. And I think events affect companies, but they're two different things. So I would say it'll be something to speculate on. But, and it'd be something that smart people may use as a hedging device against owning an equity. …”
Lessin: Kalshi and Polymarket will be heavily hamstrung by regulation
“I think the prediction markets are gonna really be hamstrung by regulation and face really tough years next year, specifically Kalshi and Polymarket.”
Mansour: Kalshi and Polymarket pushed each other's product and marketing harder
“Without Polymarket, we wouldn't have I think like, Pushed our marketing and pushed our product as hard. And without us, they wouldn't have pushed their marketing and their product.”
Brian Armstrong manipulated Polymarket odds during a Coinbase earnings call
“His team passed him a note and he goes, Oh, before we hang up here, I just would like to say web three crypto blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum. Thank you very much. And he just basically, he's like you know, just for all the prediction markets out there, you know…”
Calacanis: Alan Keating was a seed investor in Polymarket
“He was the seed investor in a little company known as Polymarket”
Lemkin: Kalshi is a safer long-term bet than Polymarket
“So based on my limited knowledge, I'm going Kalshi because I feel like it is a safer long-term bet than someone that is writing the current political vibes, which are all in favor of everything here. It just could, it was a lot different a couple of years ago,…”
Palihapitiya declares DraftKings and FanDuel are 'toast' due to Polymarket
“You can see, by the way that DraftKings and FanDuel stock have reacted to this, those companies are toast.”
Friedberg argues Polymarket's dynamic pricing model creates fairer gambling odds
“The poly market model is the best model because it creates a market, and so as information flows in, that market will dynamically adjust and everyone will get a more fair price.”
Palihapitiya claims Polymarket accuracy reaches 95% in final hours before events
“Basically, 89% accurate one week out, but in the final four hours, it jumps to 95, which means that if you follow the sharps along this pattern, you're going to make money.”
Friedberg argues Polymarket surfaces real-world news faster than mainstream media
“Polymarket actually has the news before the news does. And this is one of the most, like, powerful outputs of polymarket, is they're actually getting a read on what's going on in the world before the media recognizes it, before the public recognizes it.”
Ehrenberg: Polymarket and Kalshi Are Pure Regulatory Arbitrage Plays
“This is the purest regulatory arbitrage play of all time. Okay. If you can look at the cumulative market cap of regulated sports betting and look at how it has dropped in response to the rise of Polymarket and Calci, who are not subject to the same rules and r…”
O'Driscoll: 90% of Prediction Market Business Is Sports Betting
“This is two non-sports betting companies who are doing quote prediction markets where all we talk about is the 10% of the revenue that's political, and 90% of their business is sports betting, but we're not calling it that, and they're just killing it because …”
Calacanis claims ICE invested $2B into Polymarket at $9B valuation
“ICE, a different ICE, Intercontinental Exchange, had invested two billion at a nine billion dollar post or somewhere in that range.”
O'Driscoll: Sports betting accounts for 70%-80% of prediction market volume
“I think, you know, the interesting thing about those businesses is if you look at the volume, and I didn't check, I think I checked, it's still 70, 80% sports betting, right?”
Calacanis: Polymarket odds for Kimmel cancellation dropped from 80% to 1%
“Nexar and Sinclair's affiliates, they decided to not air it, and that was 60% of the market, so interesting, polymarket. Had Jimmy Kimmel canceled by September 30th. It was nearly 80% after Kimmel was suspended last week, but that's plummeted to one percent si…”
Das: Gambling is always a good investment if legal
“Gambling will always happen, will always be good as long as it's legal. So people, it's a vice. It's a vice investment. People like to speculate and make money off of it.”
Bonatsos: Prediction markets are a high-margin entertainment category
“I think it's a great category because it's entertainment. You already have evidence from several of these that the consumer eyeballs, you know, are really there. You have like a well-driven business model for some of these that really works for other industrie…”
Friedberg: AI models will eventually gain legal privilege and professional certification
“And it sounds crazy today, but I guarantee if you put it on Polymarket, there will be a date when this happens.”
Polymarket Gives Google 46% Odds for Top AI Model by Year-End
“Google is still the polymarket, which company has the best AI model end of 2025. So December 31st, there's been one and a half million in volume, and Google is still sitting comfortably at 46% chance of being at the Top of LM arena at the end of the year.”
Polymarket Odds of Astronomer CEO Ouster Sit at 38%
“There's a polymarket today on whether he'll be out by the end of next week. Ah, odds are currently sitting around 38%.”
Calacanis: Cuomo held 93% Polymarket odds versus Mamdani's 6% last month
“One month ago, Cuomo was at 93%. Zoran had a six percent chance.”
Coogan: Polymarket odds of Iran getting a 2025 nuke hit daily high after strikes
“Bombing of the nuclear facility did not push down the market odds of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon in twenty-twenty-five. In fact, it's at the highest level of the day.”
Hays: Polymarket puts only a 32% chance on Fordow being destroyed before July
“The Fordow nuclear facility destroyed by before July. Poly market is only sitting at a 32% chance still on four million in volume.”
Hays: Polymarket Gives 1% Odds on Tesla Naming New CEO
“Yeah, it's at a one percent chance. As of today, so.”
Friedberg: Polymarket shows 84% chance DOGE cuts under $50B in 2025
“Poly market showing an 84% chance of less than fifty billion being cut in 2025.”
Forman: Polymarket Facilitated Nearly $3 Billion on 2024 Presidential Election
“So Polymarket, which is built on a blockchain, facilitated, I think, close to three billion dollars on the U.S. Presidential election.”
Forman: Polymarket Called All Seven Swing States Before the Associated Press
“After the results started coming in from the seven swing states, Poly market reached 95% probability on each of those seven states, in some cases, many, many hours or a day or two ahead of when the Associated Press called the race.”
Forman: Polymarket Drives $500M to $1B Monthly Volume Across 75K Wallets
“So one is Polymarket is doing about, call it, five hundred million to a billion dollars a month of volume across its markets. And this is across roughly 50 to 75,000 active wallets.”
Forman: Polymarket Saw Double Coinbase's Web Traffic in November 2024
“Polymarket.com in November was one of the hundred most popular websites in the world. Had about two X the website traffic as Coinbase.com.”
Friedberg: Created a Polymarket bet on Q3 US GDP falling below -5%
“I created a poly market on GDP. Annualized GDP growth in Q three of this year being below five, negative five percent.”