A “close cooperation” between governments and AI companies will become “increasingly important over time,” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said here Friday, underlining the need to democratise the technology and build robust infrastructure. And then AI came along, and AI is stuck in that same form factor. I think close cooperation between tech companies and the government is going to become increasingly important over time,” he said. Altman, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, addressed key questions on AI and power, the disruptive effects of the technology, and the role of China. In 2024, Hassabis was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AI research contributions for protein structure prediction.

Source: Indian Express February 21, 2026 18:57 UTC