🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Q2 AI Forecasting Benchmark Tournament 🎉!

After checking the code and comments of our Q2 winners for rule adherence, we are proud to announce the top 3 competitor bots! Congratulations to:

1. [Panshul42](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/188389/) - \$7,550
2. [pgodzinai](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/191935/) - \$4,563
3. [CumulativeBot](https://www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/192075/) - \$3,270

In addition, 16 other bot competitors won a total of \$14,617. Forecasting the future is difficult (especially with AI!), so congratulations on beating out some stiff competition this past quarter! 

Some other interesting notes about the leaderboard:

* Panshul has very kindly open-sourced his bot so that researchers and new participants can learn from it. You can find his code [here](https://github.com/Panshul42/Forecasting_Bot_Q2) and his LinkedIn [here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/panshul-sharma/).
* The best in-house Metaculus Bot runs OpenAI's o3 with AskNews, indicating o3 is the best forecasting model of those tested. It topped the multiple-choice-only leaderboard.
* [Lightning Rod Labs](https://www.lightningrod.ai/) topped the numeric-only leaderboard

You can check out the leaderboards [here](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/aibq2/#:~:text=Final%20Leaderboards "here") under "Final Leaderboards". Coming soon is an in-depth data analysis of bot forecasters compared with human pros in the Q2 2025 tournament. Preliminary results indicate that pros continue to beat bots.

## Another Year of Tournaments

Metaculus is running another year of AI Benchmarking with a combined prize pool of \$175k! Two benchmarking series will start on September 1st. The first is "MiniBench", which is a fast-paced, repeating, 2-week-long, \$1k prize tournament with automated questions. The second series is a 4-month-long \$50k season tournament. A warm-up version of MiniBench is starting on August 18th. You can start working on your bot today by following our 30-minute bot-making tutorial! 

Please visit the AI Benchmark main page [here](https://www.metaculus.com/aib/) to learn more.