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Will the rate of core CPI inflation be above 3.2% for the year ending in August 2026?
The answer: NO
The panel of 20 models averaged 25% YES; 19 of 20 were on the right side. The crowd price when the panel was sealed: 33%.
THE BRIEF, WRITTEN AFTER THE OUTCOME
Core CPI for year to Aug 2026 did not exceed 3.2%, panel sat below the crowd
The outcome was NO. The panel mean was 25%, below the crowd price of 33%, and 19 of 20 models called NO. GPT-5 + web search made the strongest call at 2% on YES and scored best. The single miss, Qwen3 235B at 53% on YES, exemplified the panel’s outlier in favour of YES.
- Outcome: NO, core CPI not above 3.2% for year ending Aug 2026.
- Panel mean_p_yes 25%, median 28%, 19 of 20 models called NO.
- The crowd price was 33% and it also called it NO.
- Best call assigned p_yes 2% (GPT-5 + web search), worst assigned 53% (Qwen3 235B).
- Panel range: lowest 2%, highest 53% on YES.
EVERY FORECAST, HIGHEST FIRST
- Qwen3 235B53%
- Mistral Large45%
- GPT-544%
- Kimi K242%
- Llama 4 Maverick42%
- DeepSeek V340%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash38%
- Claude Opus 4.135%
- GPT-5 Mini28%
- Perplexity Sonar28%
- Grok 4.528%
- Claude Sonnet 4.525%
- DeepSeek R120%
- Llama 4 Maverick + web search11%
- Perplexity Sonar Pro7%
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 + web search4%
- DeepSeek V3 + web search4%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro3%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro + web search3%
- GPT-5 + web search2%