Nvidia’s ‘personal AI supercomputer’ is now available to buy

Nvidia’s DGX Spark computer.

Nvidia volition commencement selling its DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” this week. The instrumentality is almighty capable to fto users enactment connected blase AI models but tiny capable to acceptable connected a desktop.  

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

Spark boasts the benignant of show that erstwhile required entree to pricey, energy-hungry information centers. It could assistance democratize AI and would beryllium peculiarly utile for researchers. When archetypal announcing Spark earlier this twelvemonth (then called Digits), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “placing an AI supercomputer connected the desks of each information scientist, AI researcher and pupil empowers them to prosecute and signifier the property of AI.”

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

Spark comes with 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 show — meaning it tin bash a cardinal cardinal calculations each 2nd — and is susceptible of handling AI models with 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 truly is rather tiny. Spark besides has a bigger brother, Station, though there’s nary connection connected erstwhile oregon if that mightiness deed the wide market.