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In brief October 20, 2026 2 minutes

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In brief

RTX Spark laptops reach the shops
RTX Spark laptops reach the shops. According to NVIDIA, up to 128 GB of memory, from six makers, starting at $2,399. Six makers. ASUS, Dell, HP and others. RTX Spark laptop. from $2,399. Up to 128 GB. of memory. Local AI. on the laptop. Llmspeed before buying. judge the speed. Six makers → RTX Spark laptop (sell). RTX Spark laptop → Up to 128 GB (carries). Up to 128 GB → Local AI (serves). Llmspeed before buying → RTX Spark laptop (comes before).

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According to NVIDIA, RTX Spark Windows laptops, with up to 128 GB of memory, are on sale from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, starting at $2,399. In issue 008, NVIDIA announced the software was ready: now the machines are here, for local AI on a laptop, with up to one petaflop of compute (a million billion operations per second). The page does not give the price of the 128 GB version, and Llmspeed (see Releases) helps you judge the speed before you buy. blogs.nvidia.com/​blog/​…

Hugging Face introduces TorchNeuron, the AWS tool that runs Hub models on Trainium, Amazon's chips. It supports 89% of the 100 most used text generation architectures, against 46% for Optimum Neuron v0.4.5; the post gives no pricing. huggingface.co/​blog/​hf-torchneuron

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