why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 1 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Synthetic data will make individual media training data irrelevant
“Don't try to hold out for money on the training side of things, because, you know, we're going to create synthetic data, we're going to do all kinds of other things that are going to mean that no one's particular data is really going to matter.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2026
Hoffman: NVIDIA's AI growth run is sustainable for two years
“I basically told them and say, hey, look, it's sustainable for two years, which for you guys means forever, right?”
Prediction Held up
Hoffman predicts the bulk of AI chip demand will be for inference
“And I think there's gonna be a bunch of those kind of coming in, and the bulk of the demand will be on the inference side”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reid Hoffman predicts AI scaling asymptotes will not occur until GPT-6
“My guess is the soonest will be GPT-Six and it might not even, it may even be after that, and that's part of what the bet that OpenAI and Anthropic and the hyperscalers are all making, is that that, that return to scale”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Apple App Store is primary target for big tech antitrust
“I think that the prime candidate is likely to be, and I'm speaking as an individual and as a venture capitalist here, is Apple with the App Store, right?”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Future AI agents will be blends of models, not single models
“And so what I think you're going to see is, is, is networks of models and like kind of traffic control and escalation and all the rest. And agents are not going to be one model. They're going to be blends of models.”