OpenAI Sam Altman Says the Company Is 'Out of GPUs' (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/27/2147257/openai-sam-altman-says-the-company-is-out-of-gpus
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-the-company-is-out-of-gpus/
> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was forced to [1]stagger the rollout of its newest model, GPT-4.5, [2]because OpenAI is "out of GPUs ." In [3]a post on X, Altman said that GPT-4.5, which he described as "giant" and "expensive," will require "tens of thousands" more GPUs before additional ChatGPT users can gain access. GPT-4.5 will come first to subscribers to ChatGPT Pro starting Thursday, followed by ChatGPT Plus customers next week.
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> Perhaps in part due to its enormous size, GPT-4.5 is wildly expensive. OpenAI is charging $75 per million tokens (~750,000 words) fed into the model and $150 per million tokens generated by the model. That's 30x the input cost and 15x the output cost of OpenAI's workhorse GPT-4o model. "We've been growing a lot and are out of GPUs," Altman wrote. "We will add tens of thousands of GPUs next week and roll it out to the Plus tier then [] This isn't how we want to operate, but it's hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages."
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/27/2022254/openai-rolls-out-gpt-45
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-the-company-is-out-of-gpus/
[3] https://x.com/sama/status/1895203654103351462
Re:Nvidia shortage (Score:4, Insightful)
lol- where the fuck have you been?
datacenter GPUs (almost 100% for AI purposes) are 78% of their revenue, from 40% in 2022, and and ~22% in 2019.
That trend isn't going to be changing any time soon.
Bet he wishes there was... (Score:2)
Open source hsrdware.
Fuck you Altman.
PR CRAP (Score:1)
Sam Altman is a moneyraiser. This isn't an "alert" about a GPU shortage. It's a call for more investor money.
I don't know him personally but from what I read there's a reason nobody wants to work for him.
One day when there's a real AI someone will ask its opinion of Sam Altman, and the AI will laugh and laugh and laugh.
As should we.
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Bingo. This reeks of excuses for the poor performance of their newest "model".
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You know DeepSeek must be something if the US wants to jail people for simply downloading it. [1]https://www.fox29.com/news/dee... [fox29.com]
[1] https://www.fox29.com/news/deepseek-ban-senate-bill.amp
Re: PR CRAP (Score:2)
Sam is a money raiser aaaand we aren't the target audience. Moonshots, like OpenAI create drama. And people love drama, often mistaking it for reality. People sitting on Big Big money aren't different or smarter than average afaict... often they are deluded with their success or heredity .. who doesn't love a little excitment in their life and the feeling that you got in early on the next big thing? Find some Saudi prince tell him his cousin put 100 million in and create some competition to stoke some jeal
openAI was the best - now it's not (Score:1)
Claude, Gemini are less expensive for more features. Whatever his "out of GPUs" story is, people will go elsewhere
It seems like their AI doesn't work. (Score:3)
> "This isn't how we want to operate, but it's hard to perfectly predict growth surges that lead to GPU shortages."
-says CEO of AI company.
If your AI is so great, shouldn't it be able to look at a trend and make a prediction about the future needs of your business?
Re: It seems like their AI doesn't work. (Score:2)
No, you see for supply and demand trends you have to be *accurate*.
That is not a requirement for AI today.
Mo Money (Score:2)
I had to chuckle, it's the American solution: throw more money (aka GPUs) at it. Wait, wasn't it "work smarter, not harder"?
Seems like the "AI" "industry" is ripe for disruption. Anyone?
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Or, by charging more for the more resource-consuming model, they're allowing the market to discourage people from wasting resources. If it's not worth it, people won't pay.
Really the models need to get smart enough to decide which model to use.
Google wanted to get AI out there so they do it with almost every search, but that isn't affordable so it gives such horrible results they're just tarnishing their AI image in my opinion. Use it when it's called for, but then get the job done.
AI == Actually Insolvent (Score:2)
When the bubble bursts.
Perhaps scaling has run its course (Score:2)
And altman is now tilting at windmills.
Why?!? (Score:2)
What a pointless, self-serving statement.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it(you). I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind." -- Rayna Butler, a survivor of the Butlerian Jihad
(from the Dune prequel "The battle of Corrin")
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I never understood this in that universe. Like, what is that even supposed to mean, "likeness"? Were early computers like the human mind? I mean, in the movies and in the recent Prophecy series, it's pretty clear that there are computer-like objects around and machines that would require computers to work.
Spoilers (Score:2)
Spoilers incoming!
Yes. The Old Empire had thinking machine servants. Robots with AGI circuitry. Androids, though they were not called that. And, of course, somebody decided to weaponize them. And, of course, they turned on their masters and became the evil robot overlords of the galaxy. They enslaved the humans and kept them alive largely as a quirk of their programming, but treated them very badly and wantonly experimented on them and killed them whenever it was convenient.
The evil robot overlords ru
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Before the prequels, it was originally a reference to Samuel Butler's late 19th century think piece about not letting machines dictate our decisions, and how that would inevitably lead to machine evolution, where the successful machines are the ones that get humans to make more machines and defer to their needs and logic. I don't think it was even explicitly about sentience, just that we'd create our own parasites.
So Dune had humans doing all the data analyses and making all decisions, with machines at lea
Re: Why?!? (Score:2)
Because the only thing the "AI revolution" has going for it is a blind belief in brute force.