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.

ChatGPT reaches more than 700 million people each week — and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks we may be in an AI bubble.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that, given all the AI hype from investors and capital expenditures, we're currently in an AI bubble. Altman made the statement during a conversation with The Verge and a handful of other reporters on Thursday.