Microsoft schedules event to showcase local AI Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft will hold a major Windows event on October 7 in San Francisco with keynotes from Satya Nadella and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to highlight local AI on personal computers. The show will likely feature the Surface Laptop Ultra powered by a custom NVIDIA RTX Spark SoC with a Blackwell GPU, native CUDA support, and up to 128GB of RAM, which Microsoft says can run models up to 120 billion parameters locally. Windows 11 updates such as workload profile scheduling and Prism emulation optimizations will be emphasized, and partners including Dell, Lenovo, and ASUS have committed to the RTX Spark ecosystem.
Surface Laptop Ultra will run large AI models locally on RTX Spark
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Microsoft scheduled an October 7 event to show local AI on PCs. The company updated Windows 11 and worked with NVIDIA on RTX Spark hardware. Partners like Dell, Lenovo, and ASUS plan devices using RTX Spark and more announcements may…
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