AI technology adoption will be much faster than the internet because infrastructure already exists.
Predictor: Ben Horowitz · ep#232 "Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232" · source
Prediction text
AI technology adoption will be much faster than the internet because infrastructure already exists. | with AI uh we already have the internet so the technology adoption is is much much I think it's going to be much much faster than say the internet where we had to build out you know all of the infrastructure all the fiber all all the all the various things you had to um you know broadband to the house like there were so many things we had to do to get the internet adopted and this is going to just piggyback off that and be distributed very very past.
Verbatim quote
with AI uh we already have the internet so the technology adoption is is much much I think it's going to be much much faster than say the internet where we had to build out you know all of the infrastructure all the fiber all all the all the various things you had to um you know broadband to the house like there were so many things we had to do to get the internet adopted and this is going to just piggyback off that and be distributed very very past.
Predictor: Ben Horowitz
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Milestone chain
- 2026-02-01hitChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users (>2x YoY)How: OpenAI publicly reports ChatGPT WAU >=900M in early 2026 vs ~400M Feb 2025Source: DemandSage / Incremys ChatGPT Statistics 2026conf 95%Notes: HIT — 900M WAU confirmed Feb 2026. ChatGPT reached 100M users in 60 days vs Instagram's 2.5 years — direct evidence faster-than-internet adoption.
- 2026-01-31hitAI inference cost drops 90%+ vs 2023 baselineHow: Per-million-token inference cost on frontier-class models falls >=90% from early 2023 levelsSource: Brownstone Research: Cost of Intelligence; Information Difference: Cost of Inferenceconf 95%Notes: HIT — 92% inference cost decline since 2023 documented. OpenAI doubling time 5.8 months, Google 3.4 months.
- 2026-04-15hitDaily AI commerce queries on ChatGPT exceed 50MHow: OpenAI or third-party analytics confirm >=50M daily purchasable-product queries on ChatGPTSource: Stripe Agentic Commerce Suite launch; opascope Agentic Commerce Guide 2026conf 85%Notes: HIT — ~53M daily commerce queries confirmed, evidence of commerce-layer AI adoption riding on existing internet.
- 2025-05-31hitAdoption growth in lowest-income countries 4x higher than highest-incomeHow: OpenAI or research firm publishes data showing AI adoption growth rates in low-income countries 4x+ high-incomeSource: OpenAI usage geography report May 2025; ChatGPT Statistics 2026conf 80%Notes: HIT — observed 4x+ growth-rate gap by May 2025. Confirms hypothesis: existing internet enables faster adoption than internet itself enjoyed.
- 2027-01-01 → 2028-06-30pendingGenerative AI reaches 50% US adult adoption faster than internet didHow: Pew or Gallup confirm >=50% US adults regularly use generative AI within 5 years of ChatGPT launch (vs internet ~7 years to 50%)Source: Pew Research, Gallup AI usage trackingconf 65%Notes: Direct comparable test of Horowitz claim. ChatGPT launched Nov 2022; 50% US adults by 2027-2028 = 5-6 years vs internet's 7.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 234_012 Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 202 — Peter Diamandis | 67.1% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.081 |
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.049 |
| prereq | 235_002 Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). — Dave Blundin | 74.6% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.044 |
| prereq | SEM_012 Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling — Jensen Huang | 75.0% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.042 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | +0.037 |
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| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_002 | Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
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| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
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| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 247_035 | Dario Amodei will solve most/all neurological diseases by end of decade | Biotech/Longevity | — |
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| prereq | 246_016 | Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034. | Space | — |
| prereq | SEM_034 | True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'. | AI/AGI | — |
Linked documents (1)
| Sim | Source | Title | Market prob | Polarity | Reviewed | Published |
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| 0.725 | manifold | Will artificial intelligence change everyday life more than the internet did | 52% | mentions | pending | 2026-06-05 |
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