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 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,

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