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Re:Upload Your RAM by exitb on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:15AM (#50403531)

Nothing silly was said really. The remark was specifically about local inference and RAM supply issues and it’s entirely true - if all current AI users tried to switch to local models, it would make the RAM availability situation much worse. I userstand that regular Twitter folk doesn’t grasp that, but this isn’t Twitter.

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Re:Upload Your RAM by Hamuko on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:20AM (#50403550)

Would it? First of all, all current AI users still need memory in their devices. You can't use ChatGPT with pen and paper. There would always be a consumer demand for memory, even without local inference. Secondly, it'd drastically decrease the demand for HBM, which has shit yields when compared to conventional memory.

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Re:Upload Your RAM by matkoniecz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:30AM (#50403609)

Altman is still lying by omission[0] by implicating that various important costs are not real

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400515 for longer comment on that

And "if all current AI users" is a strawman, people using free chatgpt once or twice a day are not going to buy RAM to run own LLMs.

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Re:Upload Your RAM by MattRix on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:02AM (#50404613)

You are misunderstanding the quote.

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Re:Upload Your RAM by matkoniecz on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:56AM (#50405090)

In which way?

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Re:Upload Your RAM by MattRix on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:41AM (#50410730)

It was not about any of the things you stated. It was about the simple fact that DRAM in data centers get used more than personal/local DRAM.

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