WorldCup Arena: Prospective, Leakage-Free Evaluation of Frontier LLMs on a Live Tournament

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Was passiert ist

Researchers evaluated six frontier LLMs on live 2026 FIFA World Cup predictions, collecting 4,494 scored forecasts across 104 matches with zero data leakage by design.

Warum es zählt

Engineers building or benchmarking LLMs should care about prospective evaluation methods that avoid memorization and test genuine forecasting capability on real-time events.

Achtung

Models achieved 63.9% accuracy on match outcomes, matching bookmaker favorites, and showed narrow performance margins across systems with high agreement but low individual accuracy.