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109 days left 2026-12-31
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Coogan: Multi-agent orchestrators will double METR autonomous coding benchmark
“Orchestrators, it feels like these are the next, it's the next easy unhobbling that will cause another doubling in the meter software engineering time horizon benchmark.”
John Coogan Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 27:11 Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
109 days left 2026-12-31
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Coogan: AI labs will likely solve the Millennium Prize problems this year
“I think that the millennium prize will get solved or proved or delivered probably this year, if not like this week, it feels like all of the different labs are like, Put a million dollars of inference on this. Put a million dollars of inference on this. There …”
John Coogan Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 9:23 OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN
474 days left 2027-12-31
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Coogan: Space Data Center Capacity Will Remain Under 1GW by 2027
“I would probably say like, There will be under one gigawatt of capacity in space by the end of 2027.”
John Coogan Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 27:48 Nvidia’s China Shift, Meta AI Drama, Paramount's Pitch | Diet TBPN
786 days left 2028-11-07
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Coogan: 2028 election will pit JD Vance against AOC or Buttigieg
“And so my bet that I would put on Polymarket right now is that The twenty-twenty-eight election is between JD Vance and AOC, or JD Vance and Buttigieg, because AOC and Buttigieg both can actually sit and be real people for several hours, and AOC's done it with…”
John Coogan Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 2:30:59 Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
922 days left 2029-03-23
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Coogan: Routine SpaceX Starship lunar cargo flights are 3-5 years away
“Starship needs to be refueling in orbit, landing on the moon with and without crews, because you're probably going to need some humans up there, some robots and we need to start routine cargo flights to the moon. So this is straight up like three to five years…”
John Coogan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 14:10 SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
922 days left 2029-03-23
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Coogan predicts routine Starship lunar cargo flights are 3-5 years away
“Starship needs to be refueling in orbit, landing on the moon with and without crews, because you're probably going to need some humans up there, some robots and we need to start routine cargo flights to the moon. So this is straight up, like, three to five yea…”
John Coogan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 20:10 Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
930 days left 2029-03-31
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Coogan: SpaceX will launch robotic Mars missions at next transfer window
“When the next transfer window comes up, I think SpaceX is going to definitely try and launch a rocket to get there, but it'll probably just be like robots. And then the next one, they're going to launch like 10 rockets during that window.”
John Coogan Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 12:25 John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
5305 days left 2041-03-23
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2041
Coogan predicts building a lunar mass driver will take 15-20 years
“I put the over under at like 15 to 20 years, which is about as aggressive as I could get.”
John Coogan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 19:30 Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
6629 days left 2044-11-06
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2044
Jeff Bezos's 10,000-Year Clock Project Will Probably Succeed Within 20 Years
“It'll probably work, but in the next 20 years, you know, it just takes time, and then it'll just be this thing that people go visit.”
John Coogan Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 2:44:54 Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
7131 days left 2046-03-23
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2046
Coogan: An operational lunar mass driver is 15 to 20 years away
“I put the over under at like, 15 to 20 years, which is about as aggressive as I could get.”
John Coogan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 13:33 SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN

Closed calls (18) the full record →

TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Robotaxis will definitely have cameras monitoring passengers
“If you get in a robo taxi, there's definitely going to be a camera on you.”
John Coogan Apr 28, 2026 ▶ 0:06 In-Car Surveillance is Coming | Diet TBPN
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Data centers will use 500K tons of copper annually soon
“Data centers broadly will be using half a million tons of copper annually in a few years.”
John Coogan Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 7:20 Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Humanity will invest half a trillion in AI by 2029
“If you just ask me, like, Will humanity invest half a trillion dollars in AI over the next four years? I'd be like, absolutely.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 19:53 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Anthropic's next major cluster will run on Amazon
“I believe Anthropic is pretty tightly hitched to Amazon, and I think the next big cluster from Anthropic will be powered by Amazon for the most part”
John Coogan Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 10:09 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Character.ai will be built on third-party APIs
“Character will be built on top of other APIs.”
John Coogan Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 16:26 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: 'Ghost ship' startup acquisitions will become an increasingly common pattern
“I don't think this will be the last go ship we see. I think it's like a new pattern and we're just going to see this more and more.”
John Coogan Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 1:01:03 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Novo Nordisk supply will eventually severely limit compounded GLP-1s
“It may take a few more quarters, but Novo Nordisk will eventually produce enough supply to end the shortage of its drug. When that happens, despite their efforts to influence public opinion, Compounded versions will likely be severely limited.”
John Coogan Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 14:23 REVIEW: HIMS Super Bowl Ad (Controversy)
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: OpenAI will introduce free-tier ads and up to $2,000/mo subscriptions
“Clearly all of that product stuff's getting ironed out and they're going to have ads in the free version all the way up to a 2000 dollar a month tier or 200 dollar a month tier.”
John Coogan Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 10:26 Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: AI apps will dynamically route user prompts across models automatically
“Very quickly, they're going to be able to put a router in front of that and dynamically decide, oh, this is a question that needs to go to oh, one. This is a question that needs to go to four. Four O or whatever, and all of that will become extracted.”
John Coogan Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 1:12:51 Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: A SpaceX IPO is coming around September or October 2026
“So, maybe September, maybe October, but, ah, it's coming.”
John Coogan Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 29:35 Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
TBPN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Coogan: Johor to match Northern Virginia data center capacity within years
“They're like a couple years away from having the same amount of Energy capacity as Northern Virginia, where like all the major AWS hubs are.”
John Coogan Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 1:29 The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: Anthropic won't air all four Super Bowl ads due to $80M cost
“Someone ran the numbers, and if they did all, if they aired all four, it would be something like eighty million dollars or something. I don't think that they're gonna run all four.”
John Coogan Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 6:09 Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
TBPN Prediction Held up
Musk's DOGE Vehicle Will Likely Face Congressional or Legal Challenges
“I think the exact structure of Doge is evolving, and I think we'll go through a couple different maybe, maybe congressional or legal challenges, but it is evolving.”
John Coogan Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 37:19 BREAKING: DOGE Just Added a GAME CHANGER
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: S&P 500 will gain another 15% in 2025
“S and P 500 sees another 15% gain. I agree.”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 38:27 How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: No AI-produced film will receive an Oscar nomination in 2025
“Not gonna happen in twenty-twenty-five, but probably soon.”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 56:58 How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
TBPN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Coogan: Tesla will finally deliver the new Roadster in 2025
“I think this is the year he's going to deliver it. It's been forever delayed, but now like everything's clear. Stocks at all time highs. Like he's got all the approvals and stuff. Like he needs a new halo car.”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 1:16:07 How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
TBPN Prediction Held up
Coogan: TikTok ban is happening unless Trump overrides it
“There is a law that's passed that should ban TikTok. It's happening unless Trump overrides it.”
John Coogan Dec 31, 2024 ▶ 38:54 Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Didn’t hold up
Coogan: Startup will demo an armed humanoid robot within six months
“I was predicting that within the next six months, I think that there will be a startup that will take one of these humanoid robots Even if it's tele-operated, give it an AR-fifteen, like a machine gun or a rifle, and just do a demo of like what this would look…”
John Coogan Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 38:20 John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
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