Altman says RAM is better housed in data centers than personal computers

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked about ongoing supply chain shortages, including the current RAM shortage. In an interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast, he called it "terrible" to put RAM in personal PCs rather than data centers. Altman noted that many people want local AI inference and assume open-source models running on their own machines will ease the need for data center resources. He argued that from a global resource allocation standpoint, distributing memory across everyone's devices is quite inefficient. The full remarks were part of a wider discussion that also covered AI's impact on mathematics.