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• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  The Surface RTX Spark Desktop is SICK. I want one @Windows plz — it's a desktop built for local AI compute powered by the Nvidia RTX Spark. 128GB if integrated RAM and capable of running 120B parameters all within a 100w thermal envelope out of the box!#MSBuild

• @geforce_jacobf Jacob Freeman on x

  Playing Alan Wake 2 (Native Arm!) on Surface Laptop Ultra powered by RTX Spark! 1600p resolution with Ray Tracing and DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction 👀 [video]

• @windowscentral @windowscentral on x

  “Surface Laptop Ultra might be the best laptop ever.” @zacbowden went hands-on with the new Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex in Taipei, ahead of Microsoft's launch later this year. He was blown away by its design and, more importantly, its performance: “RTX Spark is seriously

• @tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren on bluesky

  Microsoft is announcing a Surface mini PC today for developers.  The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box has Nvidia's new Arm chip inside and 128GB of memory, and arrives later this year.  Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/941271/ ...

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  BREAKING: @satyanadella just announced a Dev ready windows, including ZSH, intelligent terminal (hello @warpdotdev) and Homebrew on windows + WSL native containers 📦 during $MSFT BUILD This will all make the new RTX Spark machines running local AI loads. [image]

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Microsoft's new developer-optimized Windows experience embraces Linux even more. Microsoft has created Coreutils for Windows from the uutils open-source project, and is launching new WSL containers in a bid to make Windows a trusted platform for devs👇 https://www.theverge.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Satya Nadella discussing Windows at Build, and the new Surface devices with Nvidia chips [image]

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  So the big first news is that more Windows AI APIs are coming ot more PCs on CPU, GPU, NPU. So no more are you limited to just a Copilot+ PC. There are two new models too Aion 1.0 plan, local reasoning and tool calling model for agentic apps. And Aion 1.0 Instruct, an SLM built

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  Morgan Stanley posted a report on RTX Spark and mentioned pricing: “Our checks with PC brands at this year's Computex suggest AI PCs with N1X will need to price at US$2,899, while N1 models will be priced at US$1,799.”

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks like a flattened Xbox Series X from a distance 👋 [image]

• @windowsdev @windowsdev on x

  Today at #MSBuild, we announced Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: purpose-built for developers & powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon. Designed to build, test, & run AI and agent workloads locally without setup friction or unpredictable cloud costs. Read more: https://blogs.windows.com/.…

• @microsoft @microsoft on x

  Introducing @Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer PC engineered with NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon and built on the Windows developer platform, designed for local-first AI development. #MSBuild [video]

• @surface @surface on x

  Introducing - Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. All the power developers need, right out of the box. Sign up to learn more: https://www.microsoft.com/... Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. Built for more. [video]

• @windowsdev @windowsdev on x

  Unmetered intelligence delivered on Windows with new on-device SLMs, Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan, and the expansion of Windows AI APIs to more Windows 11 PCs across CPUs and GPUs 🧠 #MSBuild See how we are helping accelerate local AI development: https://blogs.windows.com/…

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  Wow, Microsoft is really working on Windows to make it just so much more dev and AI agent friendly Fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/...

• @xenopanther Xeno on x

  Coreutils coming to Windows! [image]

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  will be interesting to see where Microsoft goes with Project Solara. It has tried and failed to build platforms for many devices in the past - Band, Cortana devices, Windows Phone, the list goes on. This time it's using a version of Android, anticipating future AI agent hardware …

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Microsoft's Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets. The company showed off two devices at Build: a desk concept and a badge concept. Details 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...

• @donasarkar Dona Sarkar on x

  I actually like this badgey thing. This can be SUPER useful for retail popups and a whole bunch of stuff in the service industry like bars, restaurants etc. #MSBuild [image]

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  Best Buy, CVS, Target and others are already exploring ideas with Project Solara! Now we're rolling a Qualcomm video in the device lab showing off some of the reference designs

• @cristianoamon Cristiano R. Amon on x

  We're shifting from apps and operating systems to agents, and that changes the device experience end to end. Great conversation with @satyanadella on what comes next. Watch our discussion from #MSBuild. Read the OnQ blog post for more. https://www.qualcomm.com/... [video]

• @markhachman Mark Hachman on x

  Project Solara by Microsoft appears to be Microsoft's entry into smart devices, one for the desk, powered by Mediatek and Qualcomm. “Think of it as a secure ambient device for work.”

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  The first device for Project Solara is a desk device concept, powered by a MediaTek SoC that can basically be an ambient always-on, always-available device that can handle your agents for you.

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  Microsoft Project Solara seems really cool. Platform to build unified agents on any hardware type [image]

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  Project Solara is about 3 things: * Being enterprise ready * JIT UI that adapts to the form factor * Extstensible so you can bring your own agent But enough of that, onto the devices!

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  Steve is on stage talking about Project Solara and he's asking “what's the form factor?” what will the form factors be of the computer. “The next computer isn't one device, it's all devices working together as one system.”

• @microsoft @microsoft on x

  Introducing Project Solara, a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences, including two new concept devices that reimagine how this comes to life. Together, these updates simplify how you set up, build, and run across environments, bringing everything…

• @marcusash Marcus Ash on x

  Being able to talk in normal human language to the terminal is going to make the power of things like PowerShell available to so many more Windows users. ❤️ this work.

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  .@satyanadella just put the whole “water” debate to rest. Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant! [video]

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dialed into Microsoft Build from Computex to talk about the partnership with Microsoft. The pair have been working on RTX Spark for around 3 years [image]

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  The new stuff in Windows 11 that @cinnamon_msft is showing off is super slick. Unsurprisingly, I love the Intelligent Terminal the most — there is a new native container experience in Windows too. #MSBuild

• @robbwitmer.info @robbwitmer.info on bluesky

  Been saying for years that the one thing keeping Ai from being useful is the ability to harness the power of Bing [embedded post]

• r/Surface r on reddit

  Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box

• Andrew E. Freedman Andrew E. Freedman on linkedin

  At Microsoft Build, the company introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, capitalizing on the RTX Spark chip that Nvidia introduced at Computex (and will be used in its Surface Laptop Ultra). …

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Microsoft reveals new quantum chip made with AI, says it will have systems by 2029

• @shishirshelke1 Shishir on x

  Whoever at Microsoft designed this absolutely COOKED Looks super clean 😮‍💨 [image]

• r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit

  Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box |  Microsoft

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  For the first time since about 2010 I was sad to not be at Computex this week. I'm genuinely excited about Nvidia's RTX Spark. The idea of having AI agents running locally on a laptop or desktop—not always in the cloud—is one of the most interesting shifts in computing. But—and […