Predictions Tracker

Last updated: 2026-03-29

15
Predictions
10
Due 2026
5
Due 2027+
0
Scored

Most AI publications make predictions. Almost none track them. This page holds every testable claim published on Decoded AI Tech. When the deadline passes, the prediction gets scored.

Upcoming — 2026

NVIDIA will ship Nemotron 4 with quantization formats tuned to post-Blackwell hardware
Q3 2026 Source: Nemotron 3 Throughput
At least 3 autonomous AI agents will hold positions in HackerOne’s top 20
Sep 2026 Source: XBOW AI Agent
At least one major API provider will ship native delimiter-format response modes alongside JSON
Q4 2026 Source: JSON Token Overhead
At least two major framework vendors will bundle evaluation pipelines as standard features
Q4 2026 Source: LangGraph vs CrewAI
Every major AI lab will ship sparse MoE architecture — inference economics guarantee it
Q4 2026 Source: Qwen 3.5 Benchmark
Google’s AI Mode will show answer quality regressions as publisher content thins
Q4 2026 Source: Google AI Mode
HBM3 demand will exceed pre-TurboQuant analyst consensus; memory stocks will trade above March 24 levels by December
Q4 2026 Source: TurboQuant Compression
The first significant UK copyright claim against an AI training company will reach a British courtroom
Q4 2026 Source: UK AI Copyright
Most LLM API providers will enforce instruction hierarchy natively, making manual prompt delimiters unnecessary
Late 2026 Source: Prompt Injection Defenses
Most top-20 North American banks will deploy at least one on-premise SLM for fraud screening
Late 2026 Source: SLMs Banking Fraud

Longer Term — 2027+

The shadow AI 3:1 ratio will become a standard metric in software composition analysis reports
Mar 2027 Source: Shadow AI Costs 1K
Judge Stein’s consolidated ruling on AI copyright training cases will have landed
Mar 2027 Source: AI Copyright Suit
A majority of R1 research universities will adopt AI competency or literacy requirements
Fall 2027 Source: 90% Students Use AI
OpenTelemetry GenAI SIG will become the default observability layer for enterprise AI agents
2027 Source: Agent Observability
Global data centre electricity consumption will reach ~945 TWh (IEA base-case)
2030 Source: Hyperscaler Power
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