Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' for personal PCs to hold RAM amid shortage
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that DRAM is better allocated to data centers than sitting in personal computers, which use it only about 5% of the time, amid an ongoing RAM shortage.
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Timeline · 15 reports
- 2026-10-31 06:24 · DEV Community — AI
Sam Altman Says the RAM in Your PC Is "Quite Terrible." For Client Work, He's Half Right - 2026-10-31 06:10 · Techmeme
When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" - 2026-10-30 20:48 · The Verge AI
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk - 2026-10-30 19:47 · r/artificial
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's "quite terrible" for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 19:26 · r/antiai
Its quite terrible for Sam Altman to have RAM - 2026-10-30 19:24 · r/LocalLLM
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 18:13 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 16:28 · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 16:28 · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM - 2026-10-30 12:59 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI is openly attempting to build self-replicating data centers. In 2019, Ilya described the endgame of this process. - 2026-10-30 12:56 · r/agi
OpenAI is openly attempting to build self-replicating data centers. In 2019, Ilya described the endgame of this process. - 2026-10-30 12:14 · Tom's Guide AI
Sam Altman says your laptop RAM is a 'terrible’ allocation of scarce resources: Why I think the AI bubble is about to prove him wrong - 2026-10-29 23:11 · r/LocalLLaMA
Sam Altman: “Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources” - 2026-10-29 17:05 · r/OpenAI
Sam Altman says self replicating data centers built by AI-controlled robots is “within grasp” - 2026-10-29 17:04 · r/artificial
Sam Altman says self replicating data centers built by AI-controlled robots is “within grasp”