NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips

NVIDIA on 6 January 2025, unveiled NVIDIA® Project DIGITS, a personal AI supercomputer that provides AI researchers, data scientists, and students worldwide with access to the power of the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform.

Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running large AI models.

With Project DIGITS, users can develop and run inference on models using their own desktop systems, then seamlessly deploy the models on accelerated cloud or data centre infrastructure.

“AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project DIGITS, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI.”

GB10 Superchip Provides a Petaflop of Power-Efficient AI Performance

The GB10 Superchip is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture and delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision.

GB10 features an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU with latest-generation CUDA® cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, connected via NVLink®-C2C chip-to-chip interconnect to a high-performance NVIDIA Grace™ CPU, which includes 20 power-efficient cores built with the Arm architecture. MediaTek, a market leader in Arm-based SoC designs, collaborated on the design of GB10, contributing to its best-in-class power efficiency, performance, and connectivity.

The GB10 Superchip enables Project DIGITS to deliver powerful performance using only a standard electrical outlet. Each Project DIGITS features 128GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 4TB of NVMe storage. With the supercomputer, developers can run up to 200-billion-parameter large language models to supercharge AI innovation. Using NVIDIA ConnectX® networking, two Project DIGITS AI supercomputers can be linked to run up to 405-billion-parameter models.

Grace Blackwell AI Supercomputing Within Reach

With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune, and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances, or data centre infrastructure.

This allows developers to prototype AI on Project DIGITS and then scale on cloud or data centre infrastructure, using the same Grace Blackwell architecture and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.

Project DIGITS users can access an extensive library of NVIDIA AI software for experimentation and prototyping, including software development kits, orchestration tools, frameworks, and models available in the NVIDIA NGC catalogue and on the NVIDIA Developer portal. Developers can fine-tune models with the NVIDIA NeMo™ framework, accelerate data science with NVIDIA RAPIDS™ libraries, and run common frameworks such as PyTorch, Python, and Jupyter notebooks.

To build agentic AI applications, users can also harness NVIDIA Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, available for research, development, and testing via the NVIDIA Developer Program. When AI applications are ready to move from experimentation to production environments, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise license provides enterprise-grade security, support, and product releases of NVIDIA AI software.

Availability

Project DIGITS will be available in May from NVIDIA and top partners, starting at $3,000.