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Sam Altman says local PC RAM is 'quite terrible'
Original: OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that it is 'quite terrible' for people to have RAM in their own PCs, arguing that memory is better utilized in AI data centers. The remarks have drawn criticism from users and tech commentators, who see them as self-serving given OpenAI's need for computing capacity and dismissive of personal computing.
Why now: Altman's comments are being widely mocked and criticized as self-interested, since OpenAI benefits from more data center memory.
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- OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.
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