NVIDIA announced on October 13 that it will begin shipping DGX Spark. It is touted as the world’s smallest AI supercomputer. It is priced at $3,999.
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, hand-delivered the first units of DGX Spark to Elon Musk, who leads SpaceX, Tesla, and X.
“The exchange was a connection to the supercomputer’s origins, as Musk was among the team that received the first NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer from Huang in 2016,” said the company.
Announced earlier this year, DGX Spark is primarily designed to handle a wide range of AI workloads in a compact form factor. It is equipped with the whole of NVIDIA’s AI stack — from GPUs, CPUs, networking, CUDA libraries, and more.
The company stated it provides a petaflop of AI performance, equipped with 128 GB of unified memory.
Powered by the GB10 Blackwell Superchip, it can perform inferences on AI models with up to 200 billion parameters and fine-tune models containing up to 70 billion parameters.
“In addition, DGX Spark lets developers create AI agents and run advanced software stacks locally,” said NVIDIA.
Source: NVIDIA
A detailed list of DGX Spark specifications can be found here.
DGX Spark can be ordered on NVIDIA’s website starting tomorrow, October 15. It will also be available through partners and their stores, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, and more.
Besides Musk, companies such as Microsoft, Google, Hugging Face, Meta, and others have received the supercomputer for testing and optimising their tools and offerings.
“DGX Spark allows us to access peta-scale computing on our desktop,” said Kyunghyun Cho, professor of computer and data science at the NYU Global Frontier Lab.
“This new way to conduct AI research and development enables us to rapidly prototype and experiment with advanced AI algorithms and models — even for privacy- and security-sensitive applications, such as healthcare.”
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