Sam Altman is a notorious liar, his job is to get the press to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt, but not in the usual way - aimed at competitors - but himself. Because uuuh, big scary AI very powerful, very smart, very super, wouldn’t want to be left in the dirt, buy now! The RAM comment he made doesn’t actually help with that though, it just pissed people off because the AI hype has caused prices to shoot up and stay up. It’s the head of a private company sounding incredibly entitled and tone-deaf. So now he tries to backpedal, probably also because there’s real resistance to data center plans. I think the hype bubble jumped the shark when he announced that he believes that we’re already in the age of AGI. We are so clearly not that you’d think that even the dumbest investor would start asking questions. We are still in the “AI sends you to the gas station on foot because gas is expensive” era and won’t be leaving it with the current tech.