Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

What happened: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that it is "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers, responding to questions about supply chain shortages including the ongoing RAM shortage. Why it matters: Altman pushed back on the assumption that open-source models and local inference remove the need for data center capacity, framing the issue as one of global allocation.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that it is "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers, responding to questions about supply chain shortages including the ongoing RAM shortage.

Altman pushed back on the assumption that open-source models and local inference remove the need for data center capacity, framing the issue as one of global allocation.