The Mac mini and Mac Studio, once beloved by video editors and coders, have become the unlikely workhorses of Silicon Valley’s most advanced artificial intelligence labs.

OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio computers in recent months, according to The Information, with the machines being used for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents. The reported purchases focus on Macs without displays or keyboards, allowing them to operate as dedicated machines inside OpenAI’s infrastructure.

Computer-use agents are designed to interact with software much like a person would. They can navigate interfaces, edit…

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