Nvidia's 3,000 'Personal AI Supercomputer' Will Let You Ditch the Data Center

Nvidia already sells boatloads of computer chips to every major company building proprietary artificial intelligence models. But now, at a moment when public interest in open source and do-it-yourself AI is soaring, the company announced it will also begin offering a "personal AI supercomputer," later this year starting at 3,000 that anyone can use in their own home or office. Nvidia's new desktop machine, dubbed Digits, will go on sale in May and is about the size of a small book. It contains an Nvidia "superchip" called GB10 Grace Blackwell optimized to accelerate the computations needed to train and run AI models, and comes equipped with 128GB of unified memory and up to 4TB of NVMe storage for handling especially large AI programs. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, announced the new system, along with several other AI offerings, during a keynote speech today at CES, an annual confab for the computer industry held in Las Vegas (you can check out all of the biggest announcements on the WIRED CES live blog). "Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI," Huang said in a statement released ahead of his keynote.