Microsoft unveils Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI dev

Microsoft is announcing a Surface mini PC today for developers. The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box has Nvidia’s new Arm chip inside and 128GB of memory, and arrives later this year. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/941271/...

The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks. Read more from @tomwarren.co.uk:

Microsoft just revealed the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact mini PC built to push Windows AI development forward with RTX Spark acceleration. It’s small, powerful, and aimed straight at the next wave of AI apps. 🔗 www.windowscentral.com/hardware/sur...

sizzle video for a 1 petaflop Arm Nvidia RTX Spark dev box 20 CPU cores 128 GB unified memory; even Satya is on the wait list! also Windows on Nvidia DGX Spark server can run a 1 trillion parameter model locally; close to the supercomputer with which Microsoft/OpenAI built GPT 2.5

The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box • RTX Spark • 128GB unified memory • Anodized aluminum 3D printed body • 100w thermal envelope • 2x USB C, USB A, HDMI & Ethernet

Microsoft shows mini Surface PC with NVIDIA RTX Spark and 128GB memory

>This miniature Surface PC also has 128GB of unified memory, making it capable of running up to 120 billion parameter models locally that's pretty cool tbh... i much prefer the idea of a smart local AI over the cloud ones. cool to see it getting better in this space! theverge.com/news/941271/micr…

Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory (Tom Warren/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

📰 **Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn ’t** Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it's now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia's ... 📰 Source: The Verge […]

My colleague Michael Crider is writing up Microsoft's mini-PC version (the dev box) of the RTX Spark notebooks announced earlier this week. I think it's a smart idea, and might make more sense than a laptop, especially if you buy into the always-on agentic AI concept.

This tweet appeared under this Techmeme headline: Tom Warren / @tomwarren: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dialed into Microsoft Build from Computex to talk about the partnership with Microsoft. The pair have been working on RTX Spark for around 3 years [image]

The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development.

Microsoft announced a NVIDIA RTX Spark based dev box, and I love that they went for a really out-there design instead of just aping the Mac Studio. The question comes down to price again though. $2K is an instantly interesting Mac Studio rival. $4K and up is dead on arrival.

Microsoft has a new ARM-based 'Surface RTX Spark Dev Box' running Windows 11 on the way. "Surface RTX Spark Dev Box features an anodized aluminum 3D printed body with 1,000 air vents built into its grid chassis—a nod to its 1,000 teraflops of compute […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Nvidia's RTX Spark CPU is set to revolutionize AI PCs, partnering with industry leaders like Microsoft, Dell, and HP. #Nvidia #RTXSpark #AIPCs #TechInnovation Link: thedailytechfeed.com/nvidia-unvei...