RTX Spark and the Return of the Personal Computer
After fifteen years of renting intelligence from the cloud, the most interesting AI machine of 2026 is sitting on your desk. NVIDIA and Microsoft's RTX Spark gives a personal computer a petaflop of AI compute and 128 GB of unified memory, enough to run a 120B model with a million tokens of context, locally, on hardware you own. A hardware-and-systems read on what actually changes.