Predicting the AI ecosystem for 2026

We are midway through 2026 and it feels like we are on the same track as 2025 regarding the AI ecosystem — major AI tech players doing their thing: buyouts, new tools, new models, etc. With this post I&rsquo;m going to try to predict how the AI scene would look by the end of 2026 — if that is even possible given the speed things are moving. My inspiration was 2 posts on HN I saw today…