OpenAI’s Altman Heads for Another World Tour as AI Race Tightens
- CEO will stop in Japan, India, Dubai, South Korea and France
- Competition from DeepSeek has galvanized push for investment
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OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman will spend the coming weeks jetting between Tokyo, New Delhi, Dubai and Germany as the race to dominate artificial intelligence takes on new urgency.
Altman’s trip to meet investors, developers and industry leaders comes at a dramatic moment. The Chinese upstart DeepSeek shocked the world with an AI model that its makers claimed to have developed for a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, upending markets globally on Monday. The announcement brought into question the economics of an entire industry whose outlays for AI projects can be in the tens of billions.