At this point it’s pretty blatant that OpenAI are engaging in price fixing more than they are actually delivering AI datacentres.
They really dont want people running high level models at home, it totally disrupts their business model
OpenAI buying tens of thousands of Macs for AI is the funniest possible plot twist: spend years convincing everyone the cloud is the future, then discover the hottest AI infrastructure is basically a warehouse full of Mac minis. Somewhere, an IT admin is whispering: »I told you so.«
What exactly do you think a cloud is? It’s built exactly like that, computers connected and orchestrated to run a client’s arbitrary services.
Now the interesting thing here is to choose many different types of smallscale hardware. Must be some fun to administrate.
