OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has taken to X to voice a common complaint in TYOL 2025: His company is "out of GPUs." As someone who regularly trawls the listings looking for the , I sympathise. They're goshdarn hard to get hold of these days, aren't they?
Of course, Altman is referring to chonky enterprise-grade GPUs like those used in the and DGX H200 AI platforms—the latter of which OpenAI was the first to take delivery of last year. In fact, it was , so getting hold of more of them seems like it may be a mere phone call away.
GPT-4.5 is ready!good news: it is the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to me. i have had several moments where i've sat back in my chair and been astonished at getting actually good advice from an AI.bad news: it is a giant, expensive model. we…
As Altman explains, his company will add "tens of thousands" of GPUs next week to its portfolio in order to roll out its new model, , to its Plus tier service (via ). In the meantime, however, a shortage of GPUs has meant that it hasn't happened at quite the speed OpenAI had hoped.
"It is a giant, expensive model. We really wanted to launch it to plus and pro at the same time, but we've been growing a lot and are out of GPUs" says Altman.
"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."
I bet. In fact, Yono all app a difficulty in anticipating demand seems to be something OpenAI and Nvidia might share, as it's very in general right now thanks to supply shortages, a , and high demand.
Having hardware of its own on tap seems to be in OpenAI's future, as the company is reportedly planning to , likely to break its reliance on high-level silicon from Nvidia.
Still, the good news for those of you waiting to try out GPT-4.5 is that Altman seems immensely proud of it:
"It is the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to me. I have had several moments where I've sat back in my chair and been astonished at getting actually good advice from an AI."
No-one would be more astonished than me to receive good advice from an AI. Anyway, while Altman says that GPT-4.5 wont be crushing any benchmarks, it's ready to go and he's very excited for people to try it. On the off chance that Nvidia misreads the message and sends a batch of GPUs by mistake, any chance you could chuck a few this way, Sam?
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