Wall Street analysts are confident the artificial intelligence boom still has room to run. Even if Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief executive at the center of it all, appears less confident.

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 capital expenditures, we're currently in an AI bubble. Altman made the statement during a conversation with The Verge and a handful of other reporters on Thursday.