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The Week in Dollar Bets

36 markets featured across 4 days. Here's what stood out.

biggest longshot
Z.ai tops Chatbot Arena at 1550 first
$1 could have paid $400
Hangzhou kids doing it for a fraction of the GPUs
most respectable longshot
ByteDance hits a $1T valuation this year
$1 pays $10.53 — dramatic but credible
the algorithm is us and we are it
lowest payout on the board
Karan Singh takes down Hayden Jones in Bali
$1 pays $2 — barely worth bragging about
a coin flip in the Indonesian humidity

All markets this week

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