The next AI revolution might just be taking off from Starbase, Texas. NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, recently hand-delivered the company's newly launched DGX Spark to Elon Musk at SpaceX.

Huang's visit included a walk past cheering engineers before meeting Musk, who was greeting staff. Huang then detailed how the DGX Spark builds upon the mission that started with the first DGX system delivered to OpenAI.

"Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket," Huang remarked.

This handoff occurred as SpaceX prepped for the 11th test flight of Starship, its powerful launch vehicle.

DGX Spark: Power in a Small Package

The DGX Spark boasts 128GB of unified memory and delivers a petaflop of AI performance. This is sufficient to run models containing 200 billion parameters locally.

Designed for developers, researchers, and creators, DGX Spark extends supercomputer-level performance beyond the constraints of a data center.

From robotics labs to creative studios, DGX Spark aims to place petaflop AI within easy reach.

Under the Hood

DGX Spark is designed to act as a rocket engine for AI, packing considerable power into a small package.

Inside its 1.2 kg chassis:

NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip: Delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision.
128GB of unified CPU-GPU memory: Enables developers to prototype, fine-tune, and run inference locally.
NVIDIA ConnectX networking: Facilitates clustering.
NVIDIA NVLink-C2C: Provides 5x PCIe bandwidth.
NVMe storage: Ensures speed.
HDMI out: For visuals.

Additionally, DGX Spark includes the complete NVIDIA AI software stack, which features frameworks, libraries, pre-trained models, and NVIDIA NIM microservices. These are designed to power workflows such as:

Customizing image-generation models like FLUX.
Building vision search and summarization agents with NVIDIA Cosmos.
Deploying optimized chatbots using Qwen.

Partnerships and Availability

DGX Spark is already in the hands of innovators, from ISVs optimizing their tools to researchers pushing the boundaries of robotics, art, and edge AI.

Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HP, Lenovo, and MSI are releasing systems that transform the desktop into an AI launchpad.

DGX Spark will be generally available starting Wednesday, Oct. 15, on NVIDIA.com and through partners worldwide.