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OpenAI acquires Mac Minis, Mac Studios for AI training

Hacker NewsPublished 11 days ago

OpenAI has acquired tens of thousands of Apple Mac minis and Mac Studios to enhance its reinforcement learning and AI agent training infrastructure, signaling a strategic shift in hardware use. Anthropic is similarly renting Mac minis via AWS, indicating a broader trend among AI labs to diversify computing resources beyond GPUs.

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