Report: OpenAI Buys Tens of Thousands of Mac Minis for RL, Causing Shortages
kimmonismus · x · 2026-08-31
OpenAI has reportedly purchased tens of thousands of Mac Minis and Mac Studios for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents, while Anthropic rents Mac Minis via AWS. The surge in demand has led to shortages, signaling that compute constraints are now impacting consumer hardware supplies.
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