Nvidia unveils Project Digits, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that’s 1,000x more powerful than the average laptop
Nickie Louise
Posted On January 7, 2025
Soon, running your own AI model at home could be as routine as using a laptop, thanks to Nvidia’s latest breakthrough in AI supercomputing. On Monday at CES 2025, the company unveiled Project Digits, a personal AI supercomputer priced at $3,000. Compact and powerful, it boasts performance nearly 1,000 times greater than the average laptop and supports AI models with up to 200 billion parameters.
Shaped like a Mac Mini, Digits comes with 128GB of unified memory, which ensures smoother handling of massive AI tasks. For those needing more power, two units can be paired to manage models with up to 405 billion parameters.
Wow! People will soon have their own AI models running in their homes. Both amazing and super scary.
Project DIGITS, is a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that is 1,000x the power of your laptop.
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 7, 2025
NVIDIA Unveils Project DIGITS AI Supercomputer
At its heart is Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which merges components on a single chip to improve data transfer speeds. This integration packs an Nvidia Blackwell GPU, a 20-core Nvidia Grace CPU, 128GB of memory, and 4TB of SSD storage into a sleek, desktop-friendly system.
“Digits runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — everything we’ve built, right on your desk,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during the announcement. “It’s versatile enough to act as a workstation or a standalone cloud computing platform.”
Designed with AI researchers, data scientists, and students in mind, Project Digits offers a petaflop of computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running sophisticated AI models. With its capability to handle models up to 200 billion parameters, it’s a game-changer for those pushing the boundaries of machine learning.
The superchip, developed in collaboration with MediaTek, ensures Digits delivers exceptional performance without the need for external servers. And if users need even more power, linking two units doubles the capacity to run larger, more complex models.
However, this cutting-edge hardware isn’t for everyone. Priced at $3,000, it’s aimed at professionals and institutions ready to invest in AI capabilities. Starting in May, Project Digits will be available through Nvidia’s top partners.
Huang remains confident about its appeal: “With Project Digits, we’re putting AI supercomputing into the hands of millions of developers. This is a tool for those shaping the future of AI.”
Whether you’re an AI enthusiast, researcher, or student, Nvidia’s Project Digits is paving the way for powerful, personal AI computing.
