2026 AI Predictions: The Great Sorting Is Underway

Send us Fan Mail AI predictions, feel free to web search what is being discussed and match them to my own views that OpenAI will either regain its stride with thoughtful innovation or that it will panic and spiral into further reactive decisions and continue its piece-meal approach with individual tools not providing a cohesive and all-encompassing customer and enterprise experience. Apple will dominate with its products and will continue to see where the chips will fall in the AI race and wait to acquire various AI tools and companies for fast tracking its development. Microsoft will continue along with Google the effective co-lead positions in AI and mix acquisitions with products development. Google will win the customer AI race in 2026. MS will have the enterprise lead. The open-source model and use of less modern chips will start to chip away at the aura of Nvidia, slowing down its until now accelerated growth and question the model itself. Meta will position itself as having the smart device of the future with its AI glasses, leaving other American tech companies behind in that space, at the same time Meta will continue to invest heavily in AI and data centers. Open Source models will start to win the global AI race by becoming available in non-G20 countries both for enterprise and government systems, further splitting the AI world into 2 versions.