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

Summary

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Cheeky Pint podcast interview that it is "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs rather than data centers, amid the ongoing RAM shortage. He argued that local inference, which many people want, is a poor global allocation of memory compared with centralized data centers.

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