{"id":947233,"date":"2026-10-31T05:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947233\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:34:18","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-its-terrible-to-have-everybody-have-a-bunch-of-the-worlds-limited-supply-of-dram-instead-of-shoving-it-all-in-datacentres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947233\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says its \u201cterrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world\u2019s limited supply of DRAM\u201d instead of shoving it all in datacentres"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the ongoing memory crisis continues, many consumers can no longer afford PCs, consoles, or phones due to the rise of AI datacentres buying up unprocessed memory. While horrendous for us, OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman believes its worse that everyday people have any DRAM at all.<\/p>\n

Over the past year,\u00a0memory prices have skyrocketed to support the demands of AI<\/a>. Not only has consumer hardware suffered as a result, but memory manufacturer Micron even announced its departure from consumer memory production as a result. The\u00a0company claimed that the needs of AI datacentres are \u201cessential\u201d compared to consumer use<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0Cheeky Pint<\/a>, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that one of the issues keeping the memory supply chain strained is the want for local compute by everyday people. While large-scale LLMs ran at datacentres by massive companies are the most known forms of AI, Altman believes locally-run models\u2014which are arguably far more sustainable\u2014are an issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people want local inference,\u201d Altman said. \u201cAnd somehow, they assume, that the problem is solved now. Because we are going to have open-source models. We\u2019re going to be ablw to run them on our own computers. And so we\u2019re not going to need all the stuff [DRAM] in the data centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tech billionaire argued that \u201cfrom a global allocation perspective, actually, it\u2019s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world\u2019s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time.\u201d While OpenAI is allowed to\u00a0buy up 40% of the global DRAM output<\/a>, Altman believes the 32GB of RAM sitting in your computer is tantamount to public greed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you\u2019re trying to deal with this very constrained environment,\u201d the AI billionaire continued. \u201cAnd somehow everyone\u2019s, many people\u2019s intuition is the opposite of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of the DRAM situation, Altman explained that OpenAI is also designing its own custom AI processor called Jalapeno. The CEO explained that the chip is being designed by AI for AI, and once again argued that his own company\u2019s desires is the correct use for the limited amount of computing hardware the world can manufacture.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that the world is doing to be limited in its silicon capacity, we all have a shared interest,\u201d Altman claimed. The CEO claimed that AI will potentially be able to create something as important as the transistor, or discover major efficiency gains. The question then becomes what is the point of using AI to create new hardware if everyday people don\u2019t get to own, use, and improve that hardware themselves?<\/p>\n

\"\"Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence<\/p>\n

As console and PC prices get more and more expensive, many are worried that they will be pushed into a future of cloud computing instead of local computing. 55 years after the first personal computer, it seems that the average person may already be stripped of their technology instead of being able to own it. What a sadness that would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the ongoing memory crisis continues, many consumers can no longer afford PCs, consoles, or phones due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,31943,105],"class_list":["post-947233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-pc-gaming","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}