Sam Altman Questions PC Memory Use As AI Data Centres Compete For Scarce Chips
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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has sparked a debate over who should get access to the world’s limited supply of memory chips, arguing that keeping large amounts of DRAM in personal computers is an inefficient use of a scarce resource when the same hardware could be used more intensively in cloud data centres. Altman made the remarks during an October 29 appearance on Cheeky Pint, a podcast hosted by Stripe co-founder John Collison. Discussing the global shortage of memory chips, he questioned the growing interest in running artificial intelligence models directly on personal computers instead of relying on cloud-based services. “From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer,” Altman said.
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