AI belongs to everybody, says Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The pace of change in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is “unbelievably more powerful than Moore's Law", Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI said in an interview on Tuesday, when he was in India as part of a larger tour of several countries. The tour comes barely a fortnight after the release of China's DeepSeek R1 shook the market values of some of the world's biggest tech and AI firms.

While he said he was initially sceptical of DeepSeek's low cost claims, he regarded the making of powerful small language models the most exciting development in the past year. Excerpts from an extensive interview: That was in a different context. That was a different time when frontier models were super expensive to do.

And you know, now, I think the world is a very different paradigm. I think you can do them at way lower costs and maybe do incredible work. India is an incredible market for AI in general, for us too.

It's our second biggest market after the US. Users here have tripled in the last year. The innovation that's happening, what people are building [in India], it's really incredible.

We're excited to do much, much more here, and I think it's (the Indian AI program) a great plan. And India will build great models. We don't have anything to announce today, but we are hard at work, and we hope to have something exciting to share soon.

DeepResearch is the thing that has most felt, like ChatGPT, in terms of how people are reacting. I was looking online last night and reading—I've been very busy for the last couple of days, so I hadn't gotten to read the reviews—and people look like they're having a magical experience, like they had when Chatgpt first launched. So, this move from