{"id":819199,"date":"2026-10-31T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819199\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:24:12","slug":"sam-altman-says-its-better-for-ram-to-be-in-a-data-center-than-on-your-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819199\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman says it\u2019s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz89 _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cA lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now because we are going to have open-source models, we\u2019re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we\u2019re not going to need all the stuff in the data center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz89 _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it\u2019s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world\u2019s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1lkuyz89 _1lkuyz88 _19wv7tc1\">You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you\u2019re trying to deal with this very supply constrained environment. And somehow everyone\u2019s\u2014 many people\u2019s intuition is the opposite of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[554,84,59,50,874,227,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-tech","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}