OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the current wave of investment pouring into artificial intelligence could fuel a bubble similar to the dot-com crash of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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.

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?