Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Runs Large AI Models Locally

Microsoft unveiled the $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra at its Oct. 7 Windows and Surface event. Powered by Nvidia RTX Spark chips, it can run AI models with over 120 billion parameters — a measure of model size — on the device, without the cloud. Preorders are open. Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI have RTX Spark laptops too.