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Tech · Resolves Dec 31

Will OpenAI launch a social network in 2026?

Our chance

11%

About 1 in 9

Market 12%

Yes 11%No 89%

Why

  • The market says 12%, but its order book is thin, so it gets less say than usual
  • Things like this happen about 10% of the time, by our estimate, which pulls us down 1 point
  • The market swung between 6% and 18% over the past month, so we allow a wide range

The range

In 9 of 10 simulations, the chance lands between 4% and 29%.

Middle 90% of runsOuter 10%Our number

Over time

Since Jun 14, the market has gone from 23% to 12%.

Oct 9Market 12%Our number 11%

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How we got this number
  • We start from the Polymarket price (12%) and blend in a base rate of 10% on the log-odds scale. Here the market carries 65% of the weight: a deep, fresh market earns more, a thin or stale one less.
  • Why 10%: rumored product launches ship far less often than rumors suggest; 10% is the forecaster's judgment call.
  • Then we run 40,000 simulations. Their spread comes from how far the market moved over the past 30 days, the time left, and a small shock shared by every question (news that moves many markets at once). Our number is the middle of the runs (the median); the range is the middle 90%.
  • One-off questions can't be backtested, so the ranges are wide on purpose. We grade every question when it resolves.

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Model events-v1.1.0 · Updated Oct 9