OpenAI reportedly buying tens of thousands of Macs for RL training
SumitGup · x · 2026-08-31
Reports indicate OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for reinforcement learning and computer use training. Anthropic is also reportedly mass-renting Mac minis via AWS. This signals a severe compute shortage and validates Apple Silicon's effectiveness for these workloads.
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