Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra, a 1-Petaflop AI Laptop for Local 120B Models
Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang just bet the farm on your laptop doing AI’s heavy lifting instead of Microsoft’s cloud. The two CEOs took the stage in San Francisco on October 7 to unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra, a Windows machine built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of local AI compute. That’s enough horsepower, Nvidia says, to run 120-billion-parameter AI models entirely on-device, no cloud subscription in sight. Pre-orders opened October 7, with hardware shipping in mid-October pending final regulatory approvals, according to reports. ...