Sam Altman's viral "RAM in data centers" quote was cut short — here's the full context

Lucky_Creme_5208 · reddit · 2026-11-01

A viral post claimed Sam Altman said personal RAM ownership is wasteful and memory belongs in data centers. The OP dug up the original interview: Altman's full point was that DRAM sitting idle in personal computers for local inference is a poor global allocation of resources — which is more coherent, since local LLMs genuinely don't make economic sense and most people run them mainly for privacy.

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