Scenario vs. reality, metric by metric

Dashed green is what AI 2027 wrote down for each date; black is what has been measured. The vertical line is the last day the real data was reviewed.

METR 50% horizon

37 h vs 17 h (Claude Mythos Preview)0.47×

Length of software task (in human time) a frontier model completes half the time. The scenario assumes doubling every four months from the spring-2025 frontier and an 80% horizon of "years" by March 2027.

10 min1 h8 h1 wk1 mo1 yr202320242025202620272028GPT-6 AstraAI 2027: doubling every 4 mo
AI 2027measured frontierdata reviewed Sep 5, 2026

SWE-bench Verified

85% vs 96% (Claude Opus 5)+11 pts

Best public score on the verified subset. The scenario set 85% by mid-2025 as its Agent-1 target.

50%75%100%2025202620272028AI 2027 target: 85% by Aug 2025
AI 2027 targetbest public modeldata reviewed Sep 5, 2026

AI R&D speed-up

1.73× vs 0.84× (2026 follow-up: likely faster, evidence weak)0.49×

How much faster AI makes AI research. The scenario's multiplier for OpenBrain against the only measurement that exists: METR's randomized trial of experienced developers (19% slower in 2025; a 2026 follow-up found no reliable speed-up).

10×30×100×2025202620272028AI 2027
AI 2027METR developer trialdata reviewed Sep 5, 2026

Lab revenue

$38B vs $65B (Anthropic)1.72×

Annualized run-rate revenue. OpenBrain in the scenario; OpenAI and Anthropic as reported.

$10B$30B$100B2025202620272028AI 2027OpenAIAnthropic
AI 2027OpenAIAnthropicdata reviewed Sep 5, 2026

Lab valuation

$2T vs $965B (Anthropic)0.54×

Post-money valuation at each funding round or tender. OpenBrain in the scenario; OpenAI and Anthropic as reported.

$1T$3T$10T2025202620272028AI 2027OpenAIAnthropic
AI 2027OpenAIAnthropicdata reviewed Sep 5, 2026

Datacenter capex

$524B vs $750B (big-5 hyperscalers)1.43×

Spending per calendar year, plotted at year end: the scenario's global datacenter figure against the five largest hyperscalers' capital expenditure.

$127B$350B$574B$798B$1T2025202620272028AI 2027
AI 2027big-5 hyperscalersdata reviewed Sep 5, 2026