“Am I excited to be a public company CEO?” he said. “We will be very late to go public.”His comments, however, highlight lingering questions over the AI industry. Even as a privately-run company, OpenAI has already been under plenty of scrutiny, especially as competition continues to encroach on its early lead. “I think that it’s good to be paranoid and act quickly when a potential competitive threat emerges,” Altman told Kantrowitz. But considering the sheer amount of pressure that’s on the company, it’s no wonder Altman is unhappy with the fate he has created for himself.