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

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.

Sam Altman says AI might be in a bubble—then touts trillions for OpenAI’s buildout. Call it the paradox powering Silicon Valley’s biggest spending spree.

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,

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."

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

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.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman downplays the term AGI, stating its relevance is fading due to varying definitions and evolving work landscapes. This contrasts