Best AI at the End of 2026: It's Not ChatGPT by a Long Shot, According to Prediction Market Bettors - Alp

The artificial intelligence race is heating up, with companies like Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Dario Amodei’s Anthropic and Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google Gemini fighting for the top spot.

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have unveiled several features, Anthropic’s Claude is leading the race according to prediction markets.

Here’s What Prediction Market Is Saying Data from Kalshi, a federally authorized betting platform, shows that over $7.6 million has been bet on the contract "Best AI at the end of 2026?" Bettors have placed a 65.2% probability that Claude will emerge as the best AI at the end of 2026, up by 2.7%.

ChatGPT comes in second with a probability of 14.6% and Gemini is third with a probability of 10.2%.

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