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Sam Altman: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources

AI · Industry · 2026-10-30 04:13

Sam Altman argues that local inference is a poor use of limited global DRAM, since laptop models sit idle 95% of the time while cloud offers far higher utilization. Others counter that PC compute growth and small on-device models will eventually make local inference the norm.

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