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Results for “Glimt”
“The readership is an intelligence asset”: Servan-Schreiber in Agenda Pública on crowds, AI and the press
In a March 2026 interview with Agenda Pública, Émile Servan-Schreiber argued that prediction markets beat polls on method, that AI now forecasts as well as a smart crowd, and that newspapers have wasted what their readers know.
How the OECD’s foresight unit fits crowd and AI forecasting into policy planning
From a Paris meeting of government foresight teams in October 2025 to an EU expert hearing in January 2026, the OECD’s Strategic Foresight Unit has set out where Glimt and The Forecasting Machine fit, and where they don’t.
Glimt in Paris: interim results at the Swedish Embassy, then the French press
On 7 October 2025, FOI and Hypermind presented Glimt’s interim record at the Swedish Embassy in Paris: 71% of outcomes called correctly across 31 resolved questions. Le Figaro and France 24 covered the project two weeks later.
Glimt opens to the public: Sweden’s crowd-forecasting platform for Ukraine
On 20 January 2025, FOI opened Glimt, a free platform where volunteers forecast the war, politics and economy questions that Ukrainian analysts worry about, using Hypermind’s technology. Within five weeks it had more than 10,000 forecasters.
