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

The two AI heavyweights got into a public fight over their rival companies, with each accusing the other of dishonesty.

I’m worried about China,” the 40-year-old Altman was quoted as saying on Monday in a report by American business news channel ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has accepted that a core reason behind the release of GPT open-weight models earlier this month was the ever-increasing pressure from Chinese rivals like DeepSeek.

OpenAI released its first open-weight model in years. Analysts say it could narrow China's lead in the open-source AI race.

Altman expressed his concern that a singular focus on export controls on semiconductors—the special chips that power AI—is ...

Overview Sam Altman and Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but split in 2018 over control and vision, sparking a decade-long feud.  Musk’s xAI (Grok) ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized the importance of mastering new AI tools during his conversation with Nikhil Kamath on the ...

CEO and xAI (XAAI.PVT) owner Elon Musk is feuding with OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) CEO Sam Altman. Barron's associate editor Al Root ...

A recent CNBC interview with the OpenAI CEO shows that tech leaders are changing how they judge AI models.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the competitive pressure from open-source models influenced their decision. OpenAI had ...

A quick glimpse of the ChatGPT subreddit (which is not affiliated with OpenAI) shows scathing reviews of GPT-5. Since the ...