NVIDIA’s Spark AI-powered supercomputers are available for purchase

Nvidia will start selling its DGX Spark personal AI supercomputer this week. The device is powerful enough to allow users to work on sophisticated AI models but small enough to fit on a desktop.

As of Wednesday, Nvidia said Spark can be ordered online at nvidia.comas well as from select partners and stores in the United States. She did not reveal the final price but said the units will cost $3,000 when they are done open Spark earlier this year.

Spark features the kind of performance that previously required access to expensive, power-hungry data centers. It could help democratize AI and would be particularly useful to researchers. When Spark was first announced earlier this year (then called numbers“Putting an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to participate and shape the AI ​​era,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Buyers can expect to see a variety of similar models on the market as Nvidia said third-party manufacturers are welcome to make their own versions. Asus, Dell, and HP are among the companies that have said so Working on their own versions of Spark.

The Spark comes with Nvidia’s 10GB Grace Blackwell Superchip, 128GB of unified memory, and up to 4TB of NVMe SSD storage. Nvidia says it can deliver petaflop AI performance — meaning it can perform a million billion calculations per second — and is capable of handling AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. It’s also small, fits comfortably on a desk, and runs off a standard power outlet. Nvidia calls it “the world’s smallest artificial intelligence supercomputer.”