Predictions for 2026

Wrote these during March and April.

• Cursor gets acquired by xAI or some other big lab that's lagging behind in benchmarks and popularity
• Open AI IPOs
• Anthropic will do a reverse merger with Atlassian for their 300k+ customers and to IPO before Open AI
• Opensource models will be relative to (Updated May 11) will fall behind models by the big labs due to lack of access to certain data