In a significant development announced on June 6, 2025, X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, has officially partnered with Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market platform, appointing it as X’s exclusive prediction market partner.
This collaboration aims to integrate Polymarket’s real-time prediction markets with X’s vast data and AI-driven insights, particularly leveraging Musk’s AI company xAI. The partnership will deliver enhanced, data-driven predictions and contextualized market analysis by combining Polymarket’s event-based betting probabilities with live annotations and sentiment analysis powered by X’s AI tools, including Grok.
Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket, described the alliance as a union of two leading “truth-seeking” platforms that will empower users to better interpret breaking news and make informed decisions about future events. Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, expressed enthusiasm about the partnership, highlighting the potential for creative product integrations that bring transparency and actionable insights to users.
The launch of this integrated product marks the first step in a broader collaboration between X and Polymarket, promising a suite of innovative features that blend social media data with prediction market dynamics. Despite Polymarket’s current unavailability to U.S. customers due to regulatory constraints, this partnership signals a major push by Musk’s ecosystem into the prediction market space, potentially reshaping how public sentiment and event outcomes are forecasted online.
This announcement follows a recent aborted partnership attempt between X and another prediction platform, Kalshi, which did not materialize amid public disagreements involving political figures connected to Kalshi. Musk has previously praised prediction markets like Polymarket as more accurate than traditional polls, citing real-money stakes as a key factor in their reliability.
As this partnership unfolds, it could represent a new era of “News 2.0,” where social media, AI, and prediction markets converge to provide users with unprecedented insight into future events.
