{"id":42652,"date":"2025-08-18T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-calls-ai-market-a-bubble\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:35:00","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-calls-ai-market-a-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-calls-ai-market-a-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls AI market a bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes the artificial intelligence market is currently experiencing a bubble, The Verge <\/a>said in a report.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,\u201d Altman was quoted as saying in a CNBC report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Altman drew a comparison between the current situation and the well-known dot-com bubble, a stock market collapse in the late 1990s driven by immense investor excitement for internet companies. <\/p>\n

From March 2000 to October 2002, the Nasdaq experienced an almost 80% decline in value as many of these companies failed to generate revenue or profits.<\/p>\n

Experts are divided on AI investment risk<\/h2>\n

A number of experts and analysts, including Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai, Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio, and Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok, have expressed increasing concern that AI investment is accelerating too rapidly. <\/p>\n

These comments echo similar warnings from others in the field.<\/p>\n

Last month, Slok’s report claimed that the current AI bubble surpasses the internet bubble in size. <\/p>\n

He argued that the top 10 S&P 500 companies are more overvalued now than they were in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, a Silicon Valley firm, told CNBC that while Altman’s comments hold some validity, the associated risks vary depending on the company.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

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From the perspective of broader investment in AI and semiconductors\u2026I don\u2019t see it as a bubble. The fundamentals across the supply chain remain strong, and the long-term trajectory of the AI trend supports continued investment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, he also noted a growing trend of speculative investment in companies with weaker fundamentals and merely perceived potential, potentially leading to areas of overvaluation.<\/p>\n

Concerns about an AI bubble intensified earlier this year following the release of a competitive reasoning model by Chinese startup DeepSeek. <\/p>\n

Challenges and shifting AI outlook<\/h2>\n

The company asserted that one iteration of its advanced large language models was trained for less than $6 million, a mere fraction of the billions invested by US AI industry leaders such as OpenAI. <\/p>\n

However, these claims were met with some doubt.<\/p>\n

OpenAI is projected to exceed $20 billion in annual recurring revenue this year, yet it remains unprofitable, as stated by Altman earlier this month.<\/p>\n

OpenAI’s recent release of its GPT-5 AI model faced criticism for being less intuitive, leading the company to reinstate access to older GPT-4 models for its paying customers.<\/p>\n

Following the model’s release, Altman has expressed increased caution regarding some of the AI industry’s more optimistic forecasts. <\/p>\n

In an interview with CNBC, he commented on the declining relevance of the term “artificial general intelligence” or “AGI,” in response to a question about whether the GPT-5 model brings the world closer to achieving AGI.<\/p>\n

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a concept of AI capable of performing any intellectual task a human can. <\/p>\n

OpenAI has been pursuing this for years, with Altman suggesting its achievement is in the “reasonably close-ish future.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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