Microsoft just unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,600, powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip to run AI models entirely on-device. The company also rolled out a revamped Windows 11 featuring "Execution Containers" to sandbox rogue AI agents, while dangling a $1,000 trade-in discount for MacBook Pro owners to lure devs back from Apple.
Microsoft just unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop PC engineered specifically for local-first AI development. Packing an NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of unified memory, the box delivers up to 1 petaflop of compute to run 120B+ parameter models on your desk without racking up cloud API bills. It hits the U.S. later this year.
Microsoft just unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, packing an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU, up to 128GB of unified memory, and 1 petaflop of AI compute. The machine is designed to run 120-billion-parameter models directly on device and features a 2,000-nit mini-LED display. It launches later this year.
