David Graff

Microsoft’s pitch at its October 7 Windows event was that the next wave of AI will run on your own computer, not just in the cloud. The headline product was the Surface Laptop Ultra, built on Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of memory, starting at $2,599 and shipping October 16, Engadget reported. Microsoft also showed Copilot acting on local files and running AI models on the device, and announced a $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for heavier AI work.

David Graff David Graff is the editor-in-chief of Techpinions, where he covers the business of technology: AI, semiconductors, data centers and energy, crypto and fintech regulation, and the deals reshaping media and tech. A journalism graduate, he focuses on the numbers behind the headlines: what companies promise versus what the data shows. His reporting on OpenAI's delayed disclosure of its Australian Medicare breach was featured on Techmeme. He also writes for Technori.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says humanity has likely entered the era of artificial general intelligence, a striking claim with major economic and social stakes. The assessment suggests advanced AI systems may now possess, or be nearing, broad abilities once associated mainly with humans. However, the statement does not identify a specific system, test, or date marking that transition.