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Will the rate of core CPI inflation be above 2.3% for the year ending in August 2026?
The answer: YES
The panel of 20 models averaged 61% YES; 13 of 20 were on the right side. The crowd price when the panel was sealed: 64%.
THE BRIEF, WRITTEN AFTER THE OUTCOME
Core CPI above 2.3% in year to Aug 2026, panel leaned YES at 0.61
The outcome was YES. The panel mean was 0.61 and 13 of 20 models called it, versus the crowd p_yes of 0.64. Perplexity Sonar Pro was the strongest caller at 0.87, followed by Claude Sonnet 4.5 + web search and DeepSeek V3 + web search at 0.85. Misses were the models that gave sub-50% probabilities, the lowest being Kimi K2 at 0.38.
- Outcome: YES, resolved 2026-09-11.
- Panel mean p_yes 0.61, median p_yes 0.6, 13 of 20 called YES.
- The crowd p_yes was 0.64, the Baseline Copy Control was 0.64.
- Range of panel views: lowest 0.38 (Kimi K2), highest 0.87 (Perplexity Sonar Pro).
EVERY FORECAST, HIGHEST FIRST
- Perplexity Sonar Pro87%
- Llama 4 Maverick + web search85%
- DeepSeek V3 + web search85%
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 + web search85%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro + web search73%
- GPT-5 + web search70%
- Perplexity Sonar66%
- GPT-564%
- Qwen3 235B62%
- Mistral Large60%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro60%
- Grok 4.558%
- DeepSeek V355%
- DeepSeek R148%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash45%
- Claude Opus 4.145%
- GPT-5 Mini44%
- Llama 4 Maverick42%
- Claude Sonnet 4.542%
- Kimi K238%