OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said he believes his company should consider giving away its AI models, a potentially seismic strategy shift in the same week China’s DeepSeek has upended the artificial-intelligence industry.

Altman admitted that OpenAI was "on the wrong side of history" when it came to AI and open source and said he wants to fix that.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman admitted that the company has been too secretive about its AI technology. While he supports greater transparency, it's not Ope

Altman’s visit comes at a critical time for OpenAI, as the company’s dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) is being challenged by Chinese competitor DeepSeek.

Altman, who is on a whirlwind tour of several countries, including Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates, is likely to land in India late on Tuesday night

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared India the company’s most critical international market. Altman’s statement came after a year that saw OpenAI’s user base in India triple, marking the end of a multi-day tour of Asia that included stops in Tokyo and Delhi.

After the Chinese startup DeepSeek surprised everyone with its AI reasoning model, OpenAI's CEO responded to that hype.