Sam Altman calls widespread local inference "quite terrible" for global DRAM allocation
Hesamation · x · 2026-10-30
Sam Altman said the quiet part out loud about local AI: many people assume open-source models mean local inference solves everything, but from a global allocation perspective it's "quite terrible" to have everyone hoard the world's limited DRAM supply in PCs used only 5% of the time. Commentator Hesamation pushes back: why frame consumers buying hardware for their own use as competing with data centers spending billions? If anyone should complain about memory allocation, it's consumers facing skyrocketing hardware prices.
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