AnalysisBusinessOctober 30, 2026

Sam Altman says RAM belongs in data centers, not your PC

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On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman called it "quite terrible" that the world's limited DRAM sits in personal computers used about 5% of the time, arguing cloud data centers offer maximum utilization. He said many people's intuition about local inference is "the opposite" of what a supply-constrained environment needs.

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