Nvidia has done it again. At CES 2025, the giant chipmaker unveiled a new AI supercomputer – the smallest in the world – that can handle models with up to 200 billion parameters.
The AI supercomputer, Project Digits, will be available for purchase in May. The desktop-sized system, which looks a lot like a Mac Mini, will start at $3,000.
Project Digits features the new Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which offers a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running large AI models. It will still be small enough to fit on an ordinary desk and run from a standard power outlet.
Previously, this much processing power required much larger and more power-hungry systems. But with Project Digit, it will be able to handle even more demanding applications – two systems can be linked and deal with models with up to 405 billion parameters.
Needless to say, the more parameters a model can handle, the better its problem-solving skills are.
“AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project Digits, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, in the 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.”
Each Project Digits device features 128GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 4TB of NVMe storage. For comparison, an advanced laptop will have 16GB or 32GB of RAM.
Users will also get access to Nvidia’s AI software library. The latter includes development kits, orchestration tools, and pre-trained models available through the Nvidia NGC catalog and the Nvidia Developer portal.
Plus, users will be able to develop and test their AI models locally on Project Digits. The models could then be deployed to cloud services or data center infrastructure using the same Grace Blackwell architecture.
That’s why Huang was quick to point out that Project Digits essentially “runs the entire Nvidia AI stack.”
“All of Nvidia's software runs on this. It’s a cloud computing platform that sits on your desk. It’s even a workstation if you like it to be,” said Huang onstage at CES 2025, where Nvidia was very busy with announcements on Monday.
Of course, Project Digits machines won’t be cheap. But Nvidia seems to be sure there will be a market for them – and indeed, there are a lot of AI developers out there.
Additionally, $3,000 is less than the $3,500 starting price of the Apple Vision Pro headset when it was unveiled in June 2023.
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