{"id":1036873,"date":"2026-09-19T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036873"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:41:55","slug":"ai-startup-mantic-raises-25-million-for-superhuman-forecasting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/19\/ai-startup-mantic-raises-25-million-for-superhuman-forecasting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Mantic raises $25 million for superhuman forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mantic, an artificial intelligence developer that beat humans in a recent contest for forecasting events, on Friday said it raised $25 million in seed funding. <\/p>\n<p>Results from the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, an online forecasting tournament that wrapped up this month, showed the London-based startup had assigned probabilities to political, economic and cultural developments more accurately than human competitors. <\/p>\n<p>Its high score and that of other AI entrants marked a first in which technology dominated the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mantic, an artificial intelligence developer that beat humans in a recent contest for forecasting events, on Friday said it raised $25 million in seed funding. Results from the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, an online forecasting tournament that wrapped up this month, showed the London-based startup had assigned probabilities to political, economic and cultural developments more accurately than human competitors. Its high score and that of other AI entrants marked a first in which technology dominated the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036874,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036873\/revisions\/1036874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}