#OpenAI CEO renames X account to 'Ram Altman'

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, changed his name to Ram Altman on X after facing a backlash for his comments regarding RAM.

Altman is attracting great attention on social network X with a series of posts, responses and account name changes. Specifically, on the morning of November 4, he posted about the role of humans and AI in the future.

"Humans must always take control of the future. OpenAI opposes the notion that it is acceptable for humans to be relegated to the role of doing things that AI systems consider worthy of reward," he wrote, asserting that humanity should not cede control of the future to AI and that this should be a limit when developing technology.

The post attracted more than 6 million views, 14,000 likes and 3,000 comments after half a day. In it, account jestermolecule suggested: "Can you change the name of account X to Ram Altman?"

Altman quickly replied "okay" and corrected the name. However, he explained: "In essence, I want the world to have tons of memory, and people can put as much memory as they want into their computers. It's frustrating when my statements are taken out of their original context. I have long called for the world to step up memory production."

Also under Altman's post about humans - AI, account birdabo asked: "So why do you want our RAM?". OpenAI CEO replied: "I want you to have lots of RAM. Produce more."

According to NDTV, the comments of jestermolecule and birdabo were in response to Altman's statement "it's bad that RAM is in the user's computer" in an interview with YouTube channel Cheeky Pint on October 30. At that time, OpenAI CEO shared that many people wanted to use local inference - the process of letting a trained AI model run directly on the hardware of a personal device, instead of sending data to the cloud server of a third-party service like ChatGPT or Claude.

"From a global resource allocation standpoint, it's bad that the limited supply of RAM sits in everyone's computer and is only used 5% of the time. We need to make the most of cloud resources if we want to deal with today's very limited supply, but people want to go against that," he said.

Altman's views immediately created a wave of backlash from users. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, even posted on

Musk also sarcastically criticized Altman's views in several other comments. For example, he posted the "laughing until tears" emoji with a meme that read: "Tell Sam Altman that I used 64 GB of RAM to play Roller Coaster Tycoon. I want him to know it was me", referring to the game Roller Coaster Tycoon, which does not require a powerful device.

According to Gadgets Now, Musk's comments are on the side of users in the context of RAM prices skyrocketing due to the AI ​​data center fever. A survey of selling prices in the US for the period from August 2025 to July 2026 conducted by Tom's Hardware shows that the average DDR5 RAM models increased by about 500% in 12 months. In addition, many other components such as printed circuit boards (PCBs) and fiberglass fabric used for motherboard production are also becoming more expensive.

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