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In 2024, experts made bold predictions about where AI was headed. Two years later, 7 of those predictions have landed with alarming accuracy. Open-source models caught closed ones. AI agents started replacing workers. Prices started climbing. Google started losing search. Here’s what came true, what it means, and what’s coming next.
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Two years ago, the AI conversation was mostly speculation.
People debated whether AI agents would actually work. Whether open-source models could catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic. Whether AI would really take jobs or just change them. Whether the free ride on AI tools would last. Whether Google’s search monopoly was actually in danger.
The predictions were everywhere. LinkedIn posts. Conference keynotes. Substack newsletters. YouTube videos. Everyone had a take on where AI was headed. Most of those takes were wrong. But a handful were eerily accurate.
I went back and tracked the 7 predictions that nailed it. Not the vague ones like “AI will change everything.” The specific, measurable ones that…