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I'm convinced that OpenAI buisness model is to create AI bubble, to sell its "reserved memory wafers" and now Macs, at the top of ram extortion pricing moment.
That same thought just occurred to me: hype a McGuffin and get investors to lend you insane amounts of money which you then use to buy up a marker, causing artificial scarcity, then sell at massive profits.