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Sam Altman's Hardware Gaslighting: Why Local Inference Terrifies Cloud AI Monopolies

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stirred up significant controversy across the developer and local AI community when he remarked: "Running inference on local hardware is a terrible allocation of scarce resources. Compute should be concentrated in massive hyperscale data centers where efficiency is maximized."…

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  1. 2026-11-04 02:27 · DEV Community — AI
    Sam Altman's Hardware Gaslighting: Why Local Inference Terrifies Cloud AI Monopolies

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