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.
If locally hosted personal agents prove practical, personal AI hardware would offer a direct privacy and compute-ownership counterpoint to cloud-based agents.
AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI said today it has raised $11 million in funding to build what it believes is the first personal computer that’s dedicated to running personal AI agents.
The round was led by Silicon Valley heavy-hitter Andreessen Horowitz and saw participation from Abstract, Audacious Ventures, Nova and SV Angel.
Ghost AI was founded by a team of young entrepreneurs led by 19-year-old Chief Executive Zain Javaid (pictured), which has spent the last year developing a high-powered computer called Core that doesn’t need a monitor or any peripheral devices. Instead, it should be thought of as a “brain in a box” that’s designed to do nothing more than continuously run AI agents that act on behalf of its user.
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