CUDA Comes to Your Laptop

NVIDIA's RTX Spark puts a Blackwell GPU and full CUDA stack inside a laptop SoC — enough to run a 120B-parameter model locally with 1M-token context. At roughly the same moment, Perplexity shipped a hybrid inference orchestrator that uses a compact on-device model to automatically decide which tasks stay local and which escalate to the cloud. Together they sketch what a local-AI platform actually looks like in hardware and software.

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Two Models, One Keystroke

Ghost Pepper v2.0.1 is a macOS hold-to-talk tool that quietly chains WhisperKit and a local Qwen 3.5 model to transcribe and clean up speech without any cloud call. It's a small app, but a clear signal of where on-device AI composition is heading.

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