“Used 5% of the time”: AI already made your RAM pricier, and now OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it’s wasted in your Windows PC

Altman called idle PC RAM “quite terrible” on the Cheeky Pint podcast, then said he wants you to have “so much ram.” Microsoft’s hybrid intelligence needs PCs with up to 128GB of unified memory to run models like MAI-Code-1.1-Flash locally, just as AI data centers push DRAM prices higher. The post “Used 5% of the time…