OpenAI buys tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios

OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio systems for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents, The Information reports. Anthropic is renting Mac mini capacity via AWS instead. Apple's unified memory and active cooling suit sustained AI workloads.

• OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio units, per The Information
• The Macs are used for reinforcement learning and computer-use agent training
• Anthropic rents Mac mini capacity through AWS rather than buying
• Apple's Mac revenue hit about $10.4 billion last quarter, up 29%