Sam Altman Says the RAM in Your PC Is "Quite Terrible." For Client Work, He's Half Right

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<p>Sam Altman says the RAM in your computer is a bad use of the world's memory. He's half right, and the half he skips is the reason a lot of our clients ask us about local models in the first place.</p> <p>Here's what he said. On the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe co-founder John Collison, about 29 minutes in, Altman was asked about supply chain shortages. As <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1023820/sam-altman-ram-shortage-cloud-servers" rel="noopener noreferrer">quoted by The Verge</a> on October 30, he said:</p> <blockquote> <p>"A lot of people want local infere

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<p>Sam Altman says the RAM in your computer is a bad use of the world's memory. He's half right, and the half he skips is the reason a lot of our clients ask us about local models in the first place.</p> <p>Here's what he said. On the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe co-founder John Collison, about 29 minutes in, Altman was asked about supply chain shortages. As <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1023820/sam-altman-ram-shortage-cloud-servers" rel="noopener noreferrer">quoted by The Verge</a> on October 30, he said:</p> <blockquote> <p>"A lot of people want local infere

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<p>Sam Altman says the RAM in your computer is a bad use of the world's memory. He's half right, and the half he skips is the reason a lot of our clients ask us about local models in the first place.</p> <p>Here's what he said. On the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe co-founder John Collison, about 29 minutes in, Altman was asked about supply chain shortages. As <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1023820/sam-altman-ram-shortage-cloud-servers" rel="noopener noreferrer">quoted by The Verge</a> on October 30, he said:</p> <blockquote> <p>"A lot of people want local infere

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Sam Altman Says the RAM in Your PC Is "Quite Terrible." For Client Work, He's Half Right

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