Nvidia’s ‘personal Ai Supercomputer’ Is Now Available To Buy

Nvidia’s DGX Spark computer.

Nvidia will commencement trading its DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” this week. The instrumentality is powerful capable to fto users activity connected blase AI models but mini capable to fresh connected a desktop.  

From Wednesday, Nvidia said Spark tin beryllium ordered online astatine nvidia.com, arsenic good arsenic from prime partners and stores successful nan US. It has not revealed last pricing but said units would costs $3,000 erstwhile it revealed Spark earlier this year. 

Spark boasts nan benignant of capacity that erstwhile required entree to pricey, energy-hungry information centers. It could thief democratize AI and would beryllium peculiarly useful for researchers. When first announcing Spark earlier this twelvemonth (then called Digits), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “placing an AI supercomputer connected nan desks of each information scientist, AI interrogator and student empowers them to prosecute and style nan property of AI.”

Buyers tin expect to spot a assortment of akin models connected nan marketplace arsenic Nvidia has said third-party manufacturers are invited to make their ain versions. Asus, Dell, and HP are among nan companies that person said they are working connected their ain versions of Spark.

Spark comes pinch Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, 128GB of unified memory, and up to 4TB of NVMe SSD storage. Nvidia says it tin present a petaflop of AI capacity — meaning it tin do a cardinal cardinal calculations each 2nd — and is tin of handling AI models pinch up to 200 cardinal parameters. It’s besides small, comfortably fitting connected a table and moving from a modular powerfulness outlet. Nvidia calls it “the world’s smallest AI supercomputer.” 

We agree: it really is rather tiny. Spark besides has a bigger brother, Station, though there’s nary connection connected erstwhile aliases if that mightiness deed nan wide market.