Nvidia will start selling its DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” this week. The machine is powerful enough to let users work on sophisticated AI models but small enough to fit on a desktop.
From Wednesday, Nvidia said Spark can be ordered online at nvidia.com, as well as from select partners and stores in the US. It has not revealed final pricing but said units would cost $3,000 when it revealed Spark earlier this year.
Spark boasts the kind of performance that once required access to pricey, energy-hungry data centers. It could help democratize AI and would be particularly useful for researchers. When first announcing Spark earlier this year (then called Digits), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student