# OpenAI 等 AI 实验室购入数万台 Mac mini 训练计算机使用智能体

- 来源：The Decoder：AI News（RSS）
- 作者：Matthias Bastian
- 发布时间：2026-08-31 16:55
- AIHOT 分数：62
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmth0bysa0f94rocheijy57vl
- 原文链接：https://the-decoder.com/openai-and-rival-ai-labs-are-buying-tens-of-thousands-of-mac-minis-to-train-computer-use-agents

## AI 摘要

OpenAI 等 AI 实验室已购入数万台 Mac mini 和 Mac Studio，用于训练能自主处理多步骤任务的计算机使用智能体。受内存芯片短缺影响，最强型号已售罄数月，Anthropic 也通过 AWS 租用 Mac mini。苹果 Mac 业务六月季度营收同比增长近 29% 至 104 亿美元。

## 正文

According to The Information, OpenAI and other AI labs have bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios. OpenAI uses them to train computer-use agents that autonomously handle multi-step tasks. The company wants more, but the most powerful models have been sold out for months thanks to a memory chip shortage. Anthropic is in on it too, renting Mac minis through AWS.

It's not just the big labs. The Mac mini is picking up steam as a local AI computer, partly fueled by the OpenClaw hype. Strong chips, shared memory, and solid cooling make them well suited for long-running AI workloads. Nvidia's DGX Spark offers a compact alternative but takes a different approach, leaning on dedicated GPU power with CUDA and Tensor cores instead of Apple's unified memory architecture.

The open-source software Exo lets users link multiple Macs into a cluster to run large models locally. Peter Voell, formerly on OpenAI's computing infrastructure team, is even building an Apple-based cloud service called Mount Thor. Apple's Mac revenue jumped nearly 29 percent to $10.4 billion in the June quarter.