--- title: "OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets" description: "OpenAI quietly partnered with Kalshi to shove its prediction data into ChatGPT for questions about the World Cup." date: "2026-07-15" modified: "2026-07-15" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-deal-kalshi-prediction-markets" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" - "Finance" - "Future Society" --- # OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets ![A colorful photo illustration featuring a silvery robotic hand holding dice.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock* Is it not enough to simply watch the beautiful game, unadorned? These days you might use an AI chatbot to keep abreast of what's happening in the World Cup. And that AI chatbot, in a sign of the times, might try to shove prediction market odds in your face as another way of ostensibly keeping you up to speed. Because are you *really* getting the full picture if you don't know where a bunch of gamblers fall on the outcome? This is exactly what OpenAI is doing. The Sam Altman-led company quietly struck a deal with Kalshi, which lets you bet on outcomes far beyond sports, to show its prediction market data in ChatGPT, the [*New York Times* reported](). It's perhaps the inevitable melding of two of the most divisive innovations to come out of the tech industry in recent years. Searching France and Spain on ChatGPT ahead of their quarterfinal clash on Tuesday returned a graphic that showed that Les Bleus had a 60 percent chance of winning, according to the reporting. ([We hope no one acted on that information]().) Asking about the England and Argentina game on Wednesday showed that the Three Lions had a 54 percent chance of coming out on top. Neither side promoted the deal, and the graphic is tellingly light on branding. There are no logos and no outbound links. The only sign of the collab is a small notice in the bottom left corner stating, "Source: Kalshi." This is the first partnership of its kind for OpenAI. The company recently updated its help page to stress that users "cannot place bets through ChatGPT," with the Kalshi data being limited to "queries related to the 2026 World Cup," according to the *NYT*. Zooming out, it's another sign of prediction markets laundering their image by glomming themselves onto other, more credible brands. In January, Kalshi partnered with *CNN* to provide its real-time prediction data on the news network's broadcasts. Its rival Polymarket [entered into a similar partnership with Dow Jones](), the publisher of *The Wall Street Journal,* that same month. Both have also partnered with Google to show their data in search results. Unlike traditional betting platforms, prediction markets don't frame what they provide as gambling: they provide markets, not bets. They allow you to wager on all kinds of real-life events, ranging from the geopolitical outcomes to the completely trivial. Polymarket [lets you bet on the destruction caused by wildfires]() and [the use of nuclear weapons](), for example, while also giving you the chance to make a buck on whether [Cristiano Ronaldo will cry at the World Cup](). (He did.) Their fuzzy legal framework, plus their Wild West approach to gambling, has led to numerous controversies. Suspiciously timed bets on massive events like the US's capture of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro have raised concerns of rampant insider trading and put pressure on lawmakers to crackdown on the platforms. Arrests [have been made]() [in some cases](), but these have been rare. Put simply, for OpenAI, it may be somewhat risky to associate itself with all this baggage, which might be why the Kalshi collaboration is very limited — at least for now. **More on:** [*Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()