“Used 5% of the time”: AI already made your RAM pricier, and now OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it’s wasted in your Windows PC

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it’s “quite terrible” for everyone to keep the world’s limited DRAM in their own PCs, used 5% of the time, when AI data centers could put it to better use. After a jab from Elon Musk and a new X name (Ram Altman, naturally), he now says he was taken out of context. Meanwhile, Microsoft, OpenAI’s longtime partner, has been pitching the opposite. Satya Nadella wants “unmetered intelligence” on every desk, with AI models running on your PC and reaching the cloud when needed. Both CEOs want AI in everything, but are not on the same grounds when it comes to where it should run, and where the world’s RAM should go.