Jensen Huang Personally Delivers Elon Musk the First ‘World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer’
NVIDIA’s DGX Spark — priced at $3,999 — is ready to ship worldwide.
On October 13, NVIDIA officially announced that its newest innovation, the DGX Spark, is now available for shipping. The company proudly calls it the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, a compact powerhouse starting at just $3,999.
But the launch wasn’t just another product drop — it came with a personal touch. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s charismatic CEO, hand-delivered the first DGX Spark units to Elon Musk, the visionary behind SpaceX, Tesla, and X.
In a moment that felt both nostalgic and symbolic, NVIDIA said the exchange reflected “a connection to the supercomputer’s origins,” as Musk was among the first to receive the DGX-1, NVIDIA’s pioneering AI system, back in 2016.
A Tiny Machine With Colossal Power
The DGX Spark was introduced earlier this year with a clear mission: bring massive AI computing power into a form factor small enough to fit on a desk — but strong enough to fuel cutting-edge AI development.
Inside this compact box lies the entire NVIDIA AI stack — GPUs, CPUs, advanced networking, CUDA libraries, and more — everything needed to run today’s most complex AI workloads.
According to NVIDIA, DGX Spark delivers a petaflop of AI performance and comes with 128 GB of unified memory.
At its heart beats the GB10 Blackwell Superchip, capable of handling inferences on AI models with up to 200 billion parameters and fine-tuning models with as many as 70 billion.
It’s not just raw power — it’s accessibility. With Spark, developers can build AI agents and run full AI software stacks locally, without relying on massive cloud setups.
A New Era for AI Development
“DGX Spark allows us to access peta-scale computing right from our desktops,” said Kyunghyun Cho, professor of computer and data science at NYU’s Global Frontier Lab.
He added, “This new way of conducting AI research helps us rapidly prototype and experiment with advanced algorithms and models — even in privacy-sensitive areas like healthcare.”
It’s a sentiment shared by many in the AI world: democratized AI power is finally here.
Who’s Getting It First
Alongside Musk, industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, Hugging Face, and Meta are among the early adopters testing and optimizing their next-generation tools using DGX Spark.
Starting October 15, the DGX Spark will be available for order on NVIDIA’s website, as well as through top tech partners like Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, and others.
The DGX Spark marks a milestone not just in AI hardware, but in accessibility — bringing the once unimaginable power of supercomputing to innovators, researchers, and creators everywhere.
For anyone chasing the next big AI breakthrough, the spark just got smaller — and a lot more personal.
