According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, not only is OpenAI hoarding most of the global memory supply, but the company is also allegedly buying up consumer DDR5 kits. OpenAI employees are reportedly walking into retail stores and trying to get their hands on as many DDR5 kits as possible. The information came to MLID through several sources, including retail and RAM suppliers.

Interestingly enough, the alleged OpenAI employees aren’t just buying ECC memory but even DDR5 memory modules targeted at gamers.

So, OpenAI’s strategy, which seems to be more focused on depriving the competition access to fast memory, is not only affecting their competition but also gamers and general consumers. From GPUs and SSDs to laptops, nearly every consumer tech segment that uses RAM is suffering from the memory supply crunch. We are already bracing for an increase in laptop and GPU prices, for instance.

OpenAI needs a lot of cash over the next 12 months

So, it boggles one’s mind that a company that is in dire need of liquidity to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars is going around trying to buy up as much memory as it can. While we can’t say if this is all a big AI bubble waiting to burst, Michael Burry thinks so, and OpenAI is certainly giving us ample reasons to agree with The Big Short investor.

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