{"id":824244,"date":"2026-11-04T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/824244\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:58:16","slug":"sam-altman-pulls-spectacular-180-after-unpopular-comments-about-ram-it-is-fcking-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/824244\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Pulls Spectacular 180 After Unpopular Comments About RAM: ‘It Is F*cking Annoying’"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made everyone mad by explaining that it was \u201cterrible\u201d that people wanted to have RAM in their own computers.<\/a> Instead, he suggested, the limited supply of memory should be used in data centers powering AI services and tools. People didn\u2019t like those comments, and now Altman is claiming that\u2019s not what he meant at all.<\/p>\n

On November 3, right in the middle of a massive blue wave<\/a> that swept across the country during election night, Altman replied with \u201cI LOL\u2019d\u2019 to a joke image featuring RAM sticks leading up to a box trap. In response, someone joked he should rename himself to Ram Altman on Twitter, which he agreed to do, but not because he wants to consume all the memory in the world for his own data centers. Instead, it\u2019s because he wants everyone to know that he really wants them all to have their own RAM<\/a>. And he\u2019s not happy that people allegedly took his comments out of context to paint him as some RAM-hoarding bad guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers,\u201d said Ram Altman on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cAnd it is fucking annoying that this was taken out of context. I have been arguing for the world to ramp up memory production for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to Altman\u2019s original quote from last week. Here it is in case you forgot:<\/p>\n

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. You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you\u2019re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow everyone\u2019s\u2014many people\u2019s intuition is the opposite of that.<\/p>\n

Hmmm, the quote above really does make it seem like Altman isn\u2019t a fan of people having RAM in their computers, as he and other tech giants struggle to build data centers and buy up memory. Though, to be fair, Altman\u2019s original comment does mention limited supply being a factor.<\/p>\n

Though, hey, I wonder why RAM is so limited right now? Oh right, it\u2019s because AI hyperscalers and big tech have been buying up all the memory they can get their hands on, making it harder for companies like Valve and Nintendo to build new hardware while driving up costs for everyone.<\/a> So yeah, I bet Altman wants memory production to ramp up, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s because he wants the PlayStation 6 to be more affordable.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made everyone mad by explaining that it was \u201cterrible\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,874,96078,154742,10108,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-824244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-openai","tag-ram","tag-ram-crisis","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824244","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=824244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}