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.

In the real world, bubbles delight because they reflect their surroundings. But the bubble Altman described could be one doesn't show the face of its observer.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that, given all the AI hype from investors and the subsequent capital expenditure, that we're current in an AI bubble, which he revealed during a conversation with The Verge,