Sam Altman backpedals and says ‘I want you to have so much RAM’ after backlash — but his RAM crisis…
- Sam Altman says he wants there to be enough RAM for everyone
- He argues his past comments were taken out of context
- Altman previously criticized people using RAM sticks in their home PCs
When OpenAI chief Sam Altman said that it was “quite terrible” that everyday folks were using RAM sticks in their computers when there wasn’t enough for all the data centers his company wants to build, it went down just as badly as you’d expect. Now, Altman has tried to walk back his comments and say it was all just a misunderstanding.
For full context, Altman’s original remarks were made on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he said: “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… You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you’re trying to deal...
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