The OpenAI CEO made the comments during an appearance on Cheeky Pint, the podcast hosted by Stripe co-founder John Collison, in an episode released on October 29, 2026. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently drew backlash for saying that people keeping RAM in their personal computers is an inefficient use of the world’s limited memory supply.
Why Producers Aren’t Rushing to Make a Lot More ) (Also read: Why RAM prices are exploding and how AI is to blame: Explained simply ) DRAM stands for Dynamic Random-Access Memory. It is the type of memory commonly used as RAM in computers, laptops and servers. Elon Musk was among the more high-profile voices who criticised the CEO of OpenAI for his remarks on memory.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman were once close collaborators who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a non-profit artificial intelligence research organisation. Musk was one of its biggest early financial backers, contributing around $38 million, according to CNBC. Because they come amid a global RAM shortage, with memory prices rising as demand from AI data centres increases. (Also read: AI Causing a Memory Shortage, his remarks have attracted attention.
The world’s richest man, who is also the founder of OpenAI rival xAI, shared a meme yesterday targeting Altman.
