Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, responded to criticism of his comments on computer memory, which he said had been taken out of context. He maintains that he has long advocated increasing global memory production so that consumers can install as much memory as they want in their computers. In an interview, he described it as terrible that the world’s limited supply of DRAM should remain in personal computers used only 5% of the time rather than be utilized in the cloud. Elon Musk mocked his remarks amid a global memory shortage driven by demand from AI data centers. Contract prices for 16GB DDR5 chips consequently rose from $8.70 in October 2025 to $48 in September 2026, an increase of more than 550%, according to Tom’s Hardware.
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