OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that the billions of dollars invested in AI now could create a bubble similar to the dot-com crash of the early 2000s. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI?

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.

At least part of OpenAI’s path to funding the significant cost of AI development will likely include a public offering in the future, though Altman declined to give a specific timeline