🔮 Will OpenAI Survive 2026?

The Verge has released its traditional podcast with predictions for the coming year. We've gathered three key and non-obvious scenarios:

🖼️ Crisis at Apple. The company will release a foldable for $2k that turns out to be "just okay." Journalists will debate the price, geeks will buy it, but no revolution will happen. Apple will finally get bogged down in an innovation crisis and a series of antitrust lawsuits.

⛔️ AI slop will become so prevalent that social networks will start filtering it. Low-quality AI content will finally drive users to the brink, increasing demand for human creators. Platforms will be forced to react by creating a "Hide AI" button.

👐 OpenAI might not survive 2026. The startup lacks a clear product strategy, costs per query are high, and faith in current LLMs leading to AGI is fading. The bubble could burst, and the company will either go bankrupt or be acquired by Microsoft.

💡 These are provocative predictions, the journalists themselves note. And while an Apple crisis isn't hard to believe, the collapse of OpenAI is more of an attempt to identify a "black swan," discussing the worst-case scenario rather than the most likely one.

What do you think? 2026 will be a year of...

❤️ — Amazing technologies
🔥 — AI disappointment
🤔 — Too early to say....

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