New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- The pace of change in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is "unbelievably more powerful than Moore's Law", Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI said in an interview on Tuesday, when he was in India as part of a larger tour of several countries. The tour comes barely a fortnight after the release of China's DeepSeek R1 shook the market values of some of the world's biggest tech and AI firms. While he said he was initially sceptical of DeepSeek's low cost claims, he regarded the making of powerful small language models the most exciting development in the past year. Excerpts from an extensive interview:

That was in a different context. That was a different time when frontier models were super expensive to d...