Altman: DRAM podcast remark was taken out of context
The OpenAI CEO said on X that he wants the world to have abundant memory and that he has long argued for ramping up production.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his podcast remark about DRAM was taken out of context, according to PC Gamer. Altman added that he wants the world to have lots of memory and for people to put as much of it as they want in their computers.
He also said he has argued for a long time that the world should ramp up memory production.
The clarification follows comments on a recent podcast, where Altman described it as "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective for everyone to have limited DRAM sitting in their own computer and used 5% of the time. The remark came during a discussion of running AI models locally versus in data centers.
Earlier this year, Nvidia's Bryan Catanzaro said at a GDC panel that AI "world models" probably won't run locally, arguing that AI is fundamentally much more efficient in the cloud.
Quick answers
What did Sam Altman say about DRAM?
He said on X that his podcast comment was taken out of context, and that he wants the world to have lots of memory and has long argued for ramping up memory production.
Where did the original DRAM comment come from?
From a recent podcast, where Altman discussed running AI models locally versus in data centers and called limited DRAM in personal computers "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective.