Sam Altman: putting RAM on your desk instead of data centers is 'terrible'
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-31
Amid the ongoing RAM shortage, Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that from a global allocation perspective it's "quite terrible" to put memory in personal PCs for local open-source inference rather than in data centers. He also commented on AI's impact on math. The remarks land as AI data center demand drives memory prices up.
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