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1. Oct 12
   a16z leads $11M round for Ghost, whose screenless Core AI computer costs $3,499

   Ghost, founded by 19-year-old CEO Zain Javaid, came out of stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel and Nova participating, and launched its first product: Core, a screenless, keyboard-less personal AI computer priced at $3,499 that its website says has already sold out, with shipping expected in the last week of October. Core packs an NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition GPU with 24GB GDDR7, 64GB DDR5 memory, a 1TB NVMe SSD and an AMD Ryzen 5 7600, and ships preinstalled with models including Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B and Gemma 4-31B, with users free to install others. Ghost says models, memories and personal data run and are stored encrypted mainly on-device with no usage-based AI subscription, and that it is building an "agent firewall" that monitors network requests and blocks unauthorized actions, plus OTA-style model updates.

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2. Oct 6
   Ghost raises $11M to build Core, a $3,499 screenless computer for local AI agents

   Ghost, a startup led by 19-year-old CEO Zain Javaid, emerged from stealth with $11 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel and Nova participating. Its first product, Core, is a $3,499 screenless machine meant to run personal AI agents locally, packing an Nvidia RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF GPU, AMD Ryzen 5 7600, 64GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and shipping with open models including Qwen-3.8, Qwen-3.8-2.7B and Gemma-4-31B; users control it through a phone and web app. Ghost says all source code, logic, model weights and user data stay on the device, with the user holding the encryption keys and a built-in firewall watching agents' outbound requests.

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