New Delhi, March 15 -- The 98th Academy Awards are set to take place on 15 March at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with Hollywood's biggest stars gathering for one of the most anticipated nights in cinema.

But before the envelopes are opened, artificial intelligence is already making its bets.

LiveMint asked three popular AI systems - ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok - to analyse the race and predict winners in six major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Interestingly, despite relying on different datasets and analytical approaches, the three models arrived at broadly similar conclusions. Their forecasts suggest that two films - One B...