Altman: local inference is a terrible use of scarce resources

Sam Altman said that from a global allocation view, keeping the world's limited DRAM in personal computers used 5% of the time is terrible, and cloud utilization is preferable. The remark drew criticism on r/LocalLLaMA, where users noted his incentive to sell cloud services.

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