OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said on a podcast that personal computer memory only works 5% of the time, and that centralized cloud utilization is more efficient. Recently, memory prices have risen sharply, and this view has sparked dissatisfaction among geeks and netizens worldwide, with Musk also expressing support for people owning their own memory. Facing the growing public outcry, Altman posted that he hopes to promote memory production expansion, and in response to a netizen's joking suggestion, changed his X platform username from Sam Altman to Ram Altman, while clarifying that he had long called for global memory production expansion and was unhappy that his views were taken out of context. In fact, Altman's core appeal was to complain that memory manufacturers, due to the shadow of past cycles, dare not expand production freely and cannot match the massive memory demand brought by AI. But OpenAI itself is one of the world's largest memory buyers, so its remarks are inevitably questioned as favoring its own business. Currently, AI-related demand has locked up nearly 40% of global DRAM production capacity, and ordinary consumers have to pay for sharply rising memory costs. The related contradictions will not be easily resolved by a name-change meme.
