Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong.

The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday.

He was answering a question about someone else’s prediction.

The claim he was pushing back on

Senra had put to him a line from Tobi Lütke, the Shopify chief executive. Lütke told the same podcast that 2026 would be the year every business was up for grabs.