OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says It's 'Terrible' for You to Have RAM in Your Gaming PC

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview with YouTuber Cheeky Pint that it is "quite terrible" from a global allocation perspective for people to have the world's limited DRAM supply sitting in their own computers, used maybe 5% of the time. He argued that maximum utilization should happen in the cloud amid compute supply constraints. The remarks come as the AI-driven memory shortage pushes up gaming hardware prices, with used PS5 Pros hitting $1,399 this month and the RTX 5080 disappearing from Nvidia's marketplace.