Nvidia will begin promoting its DGX Spark “private AI supercomputer” this week. The machine is highly effective sufficient to let customers work on refined AI fashions however sufficiently small to suit on a desktop.
Nvidia mentioned Spark will be ordered on-line at nvidia.com beginning Wednesday, October fifteenth, in addition to from choose companions and shops within the US. It mentioned models would price $3,000 when it revealed Spark earlier this yr, nevertheless it seems the DGX Spark will now price $3,999, in response to an infographic embedded in Nvidia’s press launch. Most PC makers have their very own personalized model, with the Acer Veriton GN100, as one instance, additionally costing $3,999.
Spark boasts the type of efficiency that after required entry to expensive, energy-hungry knowledge facilities. It might assist democratize AI and could be significantly helpful for researchers. When first asserting Spark earlier this yr (then known as Digits), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang mentioned “inserting an AI supercomputer on the desks of each knowledge scientist, AI researcher and pupil empowers them to have interaction and form the age of AI.”
Consumers can anticipate to see quite a lot of related fashions in the marketplace as Nvidia has mentioned third-party producers are welcome to make their very own variations. Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, and MSI are all debuting their very own personalized variations of Spark, Nvidia confirmed right this moment.
Spark comes with Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, 128GB of unified reminiscence, and as much as 4TB of NVMe SSD storage. Nvidia says it will possibly ship a petaflop of AI efficiency — which means it will possibly do one million billion calculations every second — and is able to dealing with AI fashions with as much as 200 billion parameters. It’s additionally small, comfortably becoming on a desk and working from an ordinary energy outlet. Nvidia calls it “the world’s smallest AI supercomputer.”
Correction, October thirteenth: An earlier model of this story misstated that the DGX Spark was “now in the stores.” It’ll truly go on sale October fifteenth.