On October 15, Nvidia officially opened for sale DGX Spark, the device described by the company as the world's smallest AI supercomputer, marking a new step forward in democratizing the power of artificial intelligence.
The DGX Spark is compactly designed for placed on the desks, but is capable of processing AI models with a maximum of 200 billion parameters and achieving AI performance of up to 1 petaflop, equivalent to one million billion calculations per second.
With a price of 3,999 USD, Spark promises to bring the computing capabilities that are only available in large data centers to data scientists, students and AI researchers.
According to CEO Jensen Huang, Nvidia's goal is to empower people's creativity in the AI era. Mr. Huang emphasized: "Putting an AI supercomputer on each person's desk will open up opportunities for them to directly participate and shape the future of artificial intelligence".
The DGX Spark is equipped with the Super chip GB10 Grace Blackwell developed by Nvidia itself, along with a 128GB consolidated memory and a 4TB SSD.
Notably, the device can work with a regular power source, making it easy for users to deploy in offices or research rooms without special infrastructure.
Nvidia said that many major manufacturers such as Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo and MSI will release custom versions of DGX Spark in the near future.
Some equivalent devices such as the Acer Veriton NL100 are also introduced at similar prices.
The appearance of DGX Spark shows that the trend of AI supercomputers being miniated is gradually becoming a reality.
With the ability to bring huge performance to aresort device, Nvidia is not only competing in the AI hardware race but also reshaping the way humans approach and develop artificial intelligence in the next decade.
