OpenAI buys thousands of Mac minis, 'desperate' to buy more: Report
AI labs such as OpenAI have bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train AI models and computer-use agents, The Information reported. OpenAI is "desperate to buy more", while Anthropic is renting them from AWS. Demand has surged amid a memory shortage, leaving many high-end Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations out of stock for months.