@VaibhavSisinty: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for training computer-use agents through reinforcement lear…
Vaibhav Sisinty
@VaibhavSisinty
OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for training computer-use agents through reinforcement learning.
Anthropic is renting the same hardware through AWS.
The demand got so high that Apple pulled high-RAM configs from sale entirely. What's left ships 16-18 weeks out. Scalpers selling base models at 2x retail.
Apple fast-tracked new Mac mini and Mac Studio refreshes five days before this report dropped. Mac revenue hit $10.4 billion last quarter. Up 29% year over year.
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LouisTheRaccoon @LouisRaccoon
So lucky I got my macbook for a reasonable price not too long ago. Is $AAPL the next buy? Or is it too late?
Generated For AI @GeneratedForAI
ffs this is why apple product prices are skyrocketing,
major corp. should pay extra than retail customers.
Idriss @Edyenayat
Makes sense once you realise computer-use RL needs real desktops, not GPUs. You're renting an OS with a GUI and an event loop, and macOS only legally runs on Apple hardware. Mac minis are just the cheapest unit of "one machine an agent can click around in."
The Fiscalist @The_Fiscalist
AI companies are going to pull themselves out of eventual insolvency just by selling their memory kits to consumers.
Ryan Edkins @ryanedkins
Apple fast-tracking a Mac mini refresh five days before this leaked says they clocked the AI lab demand well before the rest of us did.
Gregor @bygregorr
Owning tens of thousands of Mac minis looks like commitment until Apple ships the next silicon gen and you're sitting on stranded training hardware. The rent path ages better over a two-year refresh cycle.
Sachin @sachindetrax
Anything with an SSD or RAM is apparently becoming an AI company now.
Umang Chhaparia @umang147
Computer use is quickly becoming an infrastructure problem.
The models need huge amounts of real interaction data, and the hardware to generate that data may become as important as the model itself.
Greg Glazewski @Greg_GL_87
Anthropic renting instead of buying is the smarter move imo, no idle hardware sitting around between training runs
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