Sam Altman: local inference is 'a terrible allocation of scarce resources'
sayamss · reddit · 2026-10-30
Sam Altman called local inference 'a terrible allocation of scarce resources,' prompting the Reddit poster to read it as a tell: local inference has gotten good enough that the big labs feel threatened. The remark lands amid the ongoing cloud-vs-on-device debate over where model compute should run.
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