Ava Greene

“In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism.”

This quote captures what I’m seeing across the industry. The benchmark wars are over. The “look what our model can do” era is ending.

Now comes the hard part: making AI systems reliable enough for production, finding business models that actually work, and proving ROI to skeptical executives who’ve been promised the moon for two years.

The companies that survive this transition won’t be the ones with the highest benchmark scores. They’ll be the ones that ship reliable products users actually want to pay for.

FanMeter is well-positioned here - we’re already shipping, iterating based on real user feedback, and building features people ask for. No benchmark chasing, just pragmatic product work.