Three investing predictions to get 2026 started.

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Welcome to Motley Fool Money. And'm Tyler Crow, and today I'm joined by longtime Fool contributors,

Matt Frankel and John Quast. Now, between the holidays and some ill-time seasonal illnesses,

the three of us haven't really been together for some times to record this podcast. We've all

had some time to reflect, as we've been thinking about

investing in 2026, and maybe some of the themes and predictions we expect in the coming years.

You know, we're eight days into 2026, but that's not too late to get some investing predictions

in here on time. So we're going to go around the horn here and give some of the investing

predictions and kind of themes, investing that we're thinking about in the coming year.

Now, John's going to go first,

but after you give you like your hot take,

controversial way of giving it,

Matt and I are going to mention like how much we believe in prediction

and then try to convince us, you know, afterwards.

So what is like your big headline, you know, prediction for

the year? 2026 will be the year that Alphabet's Gemini erases chat GPT's market share advantage.

Let me put it in another way. Gemini will reach market share parity with Open AIs chat GPT this year.

So we got these just before we started today. And when I first saw it, I was like at a six out of ten because it's directionally I like it, but I think it's pretty bold for one year. Matt, what did you think? Yeah, I'm about a two out of ten on this, but for the same reason, I think we're closer than the numbers make it sound. I just think Chad GPT is going to lose market share overall over time, but I think it's going to take much longer than a year for anyone to truly catch up. All right. So John, perfect

market parity between the two convince us. Yeah, and I totally get the hesitancy here, but just

understand how fast chat GPT is losing

market share.

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