Some talk about super intelligence, AI personal assistants for all, and a world free of want. Others warn of the robot apocalypse. A few even argue that the potential of current AI models is overblown.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI startup will release better models than those of China's DeepSeek, whose powerful low-cost AI model triggered a tech selloff in the U.S. and called into question Silicon Valley's lead in the global AI race.