Year-End Bitcoin Price Bets Get Wild as 11 AI Models Target up to $105K

This week bitcoin’s price reached $82,000 again, and this has caused a great deal of positive sentiment to rain down on the community after a long bear cycle. We don’t know if the bottom was in or if the bear is officially over, but we do know that a great deal of influencers, luminaries, and Wall Street analysts are sharing bullish predictions. For instance, Wall Street research firm Bernstein thinks six-digit bitcoin prices could come to fruition this year.

Brian Vieten, senior portfolio manager at Siebert Financial, told Bitcoin.com News that he thinks bitcoin’s price could tap $175,000 next year. Implementation of the GENIUS Act will “mark the next major adoption catalyst,” Vieten told our newsdesk. But seeing how we asked 11 AI models back in May to predict the price of bitcoin at the end of 2026, we decided to try the experiment again and query the same models.

Well, at least as closely as we can, most of the model’s have upgraded their version histories a great deal since May. In this specific test, we leveraged the following AI models: Claude Sonnet 5, Grok, Qwen 3.7+, ChatGPT Sol Instant, Pi AI, Mistral AI Vibe, Deepseek Deepthink, Gemini Pro, Venice AI, Claude Opus 5, and Microsoft Copilot. We also used pretty much the same prompt as we did back then, but tweaked the price points and dates to match current statistics.