Did Sam Altman Alter His Position on Selling Chips to Power Individual AI Instances?

Trust Sam Altman to open his mouth and push a foot into it. In a recent podcast, the OpenAI boss said things that caused a social media storm. Altman said it did not make sense for individuals to run their own AI models at home and do so by owning chips that would be far better off powering datacentres for global use. “But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of (chips) sitting in their own computer,” he had said on John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast. Immediately, things blew up on social media forcing the billionaire to take a step back.