Aakash GuptaLead source
The same 32GB of computer memory that cost $59 a year and a half ago costs $429 today. And the CEO of OpenAI just said it's "quite terrible" that you have it in your computer at all. What Sam Altman said about a minute before that is the part that should actually bother you. He was on John Collison's podcast, Cheeky Pint, and John asked him the question everyone pricing out a PC has been asking. Memory got ridiculously expensive. Normally when something gets that expensive, new companies rush in to make more of it and the price comes back down. So where are they? Sam answered with one word, "bad," and then said the invisible hand is failing right now. His explanation was pretty honest. For decades, he said, making memory chips meant spending $20 billion on factories to make $19 billion…Read original on X