​When in 2026 will the AI bubble pop? 🤔

​Join The AI Collective, Kalshi, and Roam for the definitive forecasting event of the year. We’re convening some of the industry’s most influential voices and thought leaders for a high-stakes strategic forecasting session.

​We won’t just be making guesses; we will be looking at the data. We’ll take the top 5 prediction markets from Kalshi regarding AGI, model capabilities, and the agentic economy, and ask three industry titans to place their bets on what 2026 actually holds.

​What We’ll Tackle

• ​The Throne of 2026: Which model provider (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI) will hold the #1 spot on the LMSYS Leaderboard on Dec 31st?

• ​The AGI Declaration: Will any major lab officially announce AGI achievement in 2026?

• ​The Agent Economy: Will we see the first fully autonomous B2B transaction >$50k executed by an agent without human intervention?

• ​The Coding Threshold: Will an AI achieve >90% on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark?

• ​The Black Swan: What is the one major event the market isn't pricing in yet?

​Expert Panel

• ​Jeremiah Owyang – GP, Blitzscaling Ventures. The industry’s leading voice on AI Agents and corporate strategy, offering the macro view on where capital is flowing and which workflows will monetize.

• ​Grace Gong – Smart Venture Podcast. A top voice tracking the frontier of AI and startups, bringing a clear-eyed view of what’s real, what’s next, and what 2026 deployment will actually look like in practice.

• ​✨ To be announced ✨ 🥷😉

• ​Moderator: Chappy Asel – Founder & Executive Director at The AI Collective.

​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 100,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.

Kalshi is the first regulated exchange dedicated to trading on event outcomes, allowing people to trade on the future.

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