Over the last week, bitcoin’s price has been trading between $76,200 to $82,100, and market sentiment has been far more bullish. BTC’s price is roughly around the same height it was around May, and at that time, Bitcoin.com News queried 11 artificial intelligence (AI) models to predict bitcoin’s year-end price. With September historically proving to be a rough month for BTC, we decided to put the same group of chatbots back to work for another round of predictions.
This week bitcoin’s price reached $82,000 again, and this has caused a great deal of positive sentiment to rain down on the community after a long bear cycle. We don’t know if the bottom was in or if the bear is officially over, but we do know that a great deal of influencers, luminaries, and Wall Street analysts are sharing bullish predictions. For instance, Wall Street research firm Bernstein thinks six-digit bitcoin prices could come to fruition this year.
Brian Vieten, senior portfolio manager at Siebert Financial, told Bitcoin.com News that he thinks bitcoin’s price could tap $175,000 next year. Implementation of the GENIUS Act will “mark the next major adoption catalyst,” Vieten told our newsdesk. But seeing how we asked 11 AI models back in May to predict the price of bitcoin at the end of 2026, we decided to try the experiment again and query the same models.
