OpenAI CEO Altman: RAM in data centers beats personal PCs for local inference
In a Cheeky Pint podcast interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it is "terrible" from a global allocation perspective to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers, responding to supply chain shortages like the ongoing RAM shortage. He pushed back on assumptions that open-source models running locally would eliminate the need for data center infrastructure.
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Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on AI's impact on math , Altman said: "A 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're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data center. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybo … Read the full story at The Verge.
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