Sam Altman calls local inference "a terrible allocation of scarce resources"
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Altman argued that people assume open-source models mean local inference is solved, but running models on personal computers wastes memory that could be used more efficiently in the cloud. The remark drew pushback from local-AI advocates who say on-device inference is a necessity.
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