Altman meets Samsung presidents for AI talks after DRAM comments
Samsung said about 50 presidents from its affiliates joined the session, which followed Altman’s criticism of keeping scarce memory in personal computers.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman met about 50 Samsung affiliate presidents at the company’s training center in Yongin, south of Seoul, Samsung said. The meeting came two days after a podcast aired in which Altman questioned allocating scarce DRAM to personal computers.
Participants represented Samsung’s electronics, finance and biotech businesses. According to Samsung, discussions covered AI’s development, potential business opportunities and its effects on management decisions and organizational practices. Samsung neither identified the executives attending nor disclosed Altman’s remarks at the meeting.
The session formed part of Samsung’s training for presidents. Beforehand, they completed their second practical generative AI course, following one in June, using the technology to organize management documents and practice decision-making. Samsung said about 2,300 executives have received training, with all employees due to complete AI training by February 2027.
The companies already have an infrastructure relationship. Samsung said an October 2025 letter of intent was followed by work toward supplying memory chips for OpenAI’s Stargate data center project. Under that agreement, Samsung SDS is to collaborate with OpenAI on business AI services and data centers.
On Stripe co-founder John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman argued that keeping limited DRAM in personal machines used only 5% of the time was inefficient. He favored maximizing cloud utilization while supply remains constrained. He also said chip and energy costs should decline, but that substantially more supply would be needed.
