a personal AI supercomputer

NVIDIA has presented Project DIGITS as part of its news for CES 2025, where the launch of its new GeForce RTX 50 series dedicated graphics cards for client computing and the technologies that accompany it such as DLSS 4 have shone above everything else.

Of course, taking into account the potential achieved by NVIDIA in hardware for artificial intelligence, which has allowed it to increase its market capitalization to more than 3 trillion dollars and has made it one of the three most valuable companies in the world, they could not missing from its visit to the Las Vegas fair professional solutions with prominence for AI

What is NVIDIA Project DIGITS

The green giant defines it as “a personal AI supercomputer”which provides access to the Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a tremendously compact form factor. In fact, as you will see in the images, it is smaller than a typical Mini-PC and can be placed anywhere on the desktop.

NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS follows in the footsteps of the company’s previous AI development solutions such as the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, but here we are looking at something much more complete and powerful. Designed for AI researchers, data scientists, developers, and students, this solution includes the new Superchip GB10 Grace con arquitectura ‘Blackwell’ (the same one used in its RTX 50 graphics cards) that offers up to a petaflop of computing performance to prototype, tune and run AI models.

The GB10, developed in collaboration with MediaTek, features a Blackwell GPU connected to a 20-core Grace CPU. Inside the case, the chips are connected to a 128GB memory array and accommodate up to 4TB of flash storage.

NVIDIA claims that a single unit can run models with a size of up to 200 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving abilities, and models with more parameters generally perform better than those with fewer parameters. Even, two machines can be connected to each other to run models with up to 405 billion parameters, if a job requires it.

The company says it is fulfilling its promise “put an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student, allowing them to participate in and shape the AI ​​era”. The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, went further in his presentation: «Project DIGITS runs Nvidia’s entire AI stack; all Nvidia software runs on it… It’s a cloud computing platform that sits on your desktop… It’s even a workstation, if you want”.

The executive means that the Project Digits can offer a standalone experience or can be connected to a main PC with Windows or Mac. As could be imagined, it is not cheap and each unit will have a Price in the environments of the 3,000 dollars. It runs NVIDIA’s Linux-based DGX operating system and is expected to be available in May 2025.