AI Forecasters Outperform Humans In Prediction Tournaments

AI prediction engines from startups such as Mantic and Lightning Rod Labs have climbed Metaculus and market leaderboards between 2024 and early 2026, placing as high as fourth out of more than 500 entrants. These systems combine ensembles of large language models and domain-specific modules to beat weighted human averages in some events, suggesting scalable accuracy gains for probabilistic forecasting tasks.