If you’ve tried to buy new electronics recently, from gaming consoles to iPhones, you’ll have dealt with prices that are hundreds higher than they were even a year ago. That’s because the price of RAM keeps going up as AI companies race to build out datacenters to feed the insatiable compute demands of frontier LLM models. Lots of people think being unable to buy RAM for consumer products at a reasonable price is a bad thing. O penAI’s Sam Altman disagrees .

“A lot of people want local inference,” the executive whose company is expected to go public sometime next year recently told the Cheeky Pint podcast.…