"It was clear that if we didn't do it, the world was gonna be mostly built on Chinese open source models," Altman said.

Many fears of an AI bubble had hit a fever pitch at the start of this year when Chinese start-up DeepSeek released a competitive reasoning model.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who welcomed his first child earlier this year, has opened up about his new outlook on life. Calling parenthood “amazing,” Altman stressed the importance of building families and communities,

During a dinner with a small group of reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman cautioned that investment in AI is moving too fast.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that GPT-5 didn't meet the coveted AGI threshold because of its inability to continuously learn "as it's deployed from the new things it finds."

In an interview with reporters from multiple publications on Thursday night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the AI sector has entered the territory of a financial bubble.

For all the power of GPT-5, Altman stressed that human authenticity still matters. “The models are going to be much smarter than we are, but people really care about other humans,” he said. “Being a real person in a world of unlimited AI content will increase in value.”

But recent comments from Altman have been somewhat more subdued. “My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it will matter much less,” he said in December.