OpenAI Bought Macs. Your Pilot Bills 24 Hours Minimum.
OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents, and Anthropic rents Mac capacity through AWS. The reason matters to your pilot: a desktop agent's unit of cost is a machine, not a token, and Apple's licence caps you at two virtual desktops per Mac while every cloud Mac host bills a 24-hour minimum.
September 1, 2026 · 15 min read