Just weeks after Nvidia announced the availability of its $249 “compact AI supercomputer,” the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit for startups and hobbyists, CEO Jensen Huang revealed the company is planning to launch a personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits with a starting price of $3,000. The desktop-sized system features the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which enables it to handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Nvidia claims there is enough processing power to run high-end AI models (performing up to one quadrillion AI calculations per second) while the compact system can run from a standard power outlet.

“Each Project Digits system comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory — by comparison, a good laptop might have 16GB or 32GB of RAM — and up to 4TB of NVMe storage,” reports The Verge. “For even more demanding applications, two Project Digits systems can be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters (Meta’s best model, Llama 3.1, has 405 billion parameters).”

“The system features Nvidia’s latest-generation CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores connected via NVLink-C2C to a Grace CPU containing 20 power-efficient Arm-based cores,” notes The Verge. “MediaTek, known for their Arm-based chip designs, collaborated on the GB10’s development to optimize its power efficiency and performance.”

Wired suggests the availability of Project Digits “will let you ditch the data center.” The announcement coincided with other CES news including Nvidia’s new AI tools for developing autonomous agents.

“AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project Digits, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers,” Huang said in a press release. “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.”

With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune and test models on local Project Digits systems running Linux-based Nvidia DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on Nvidia DGX Cloud,” explains the release. “This allows developers to prototype AI on Project Digits and then scale on cloud or data center infrastructure.”

The company points out that Digits users will also have access to the library of “Nvidia AI software for experimentation and prototyping, including software development kits, orchestration tools, frameworks and models available in the Nvidia NGC catalog and on the Nvidia Developer portal.”

Digits will be available in May, starting at $3,000.

Related:
Nvidia Unveils Project Digits Personal AI Supercomputer for Researchers and Students, VentureBeat, 1/6/25
Nvidia Debuts Project Digits, a Palm-Sized AI Supercomputer That Can Sit on Any Desk, SiliconANGLE, 1/6/25