Nvidia's Huang says the PC must become a personal agent, unveils RTX Spark
At the Berlin GTC on October 21, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the old "type a command, computer executes" paradigm is over and that PCs must become personal agents that understand user intent and carry out tasks themselves, according to TMTPost. He showed RTX Spark, which Nvidia calls a PC redesigned for the AI era, and said the company worked secretly with Microsoft on the device for four years and invested thousands of "engineer-years". Nvidia's published information says RTX Spark uses a chip design that fuses CPU and GPU with up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute; Huang also brought out Hugging Face MicroDuck robots whose "brains" were built on RTX Spark and which were driven by agents to walk and respond to commands. The report also notes discussion voices arguing that "the PC is only a stopgap" as a host for agents.
Per the report, Nvidia supplies the GPU, AI software stack and local model runtime while Microsoft provides Windows-level execution, isolation and permission management for agents, aiming to address not just whether AI can run on a PC but whether it can keep executing tasks in real work environments.
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“PC需要被重新发明。”
当地时间10月21日，英伟达CEO黄仁勋在柏林GTC大会上宣称，以往“输入指令，电脑执行”的范式已经走向终结，PC只有成为个人Agent，理解用户意图并主动执行任务，才符合AI时代的需求。
英伟达成立于1993年PC革命前夕，起起伏伏30余年后，成为了AI革命的最重要推手，也从“在公寓办公”“吃了上顿没下顿”的创业团队变成了全球市值最高的上市公司。
而在2022年底AI浪潮爆发后，英伟达在赚得盆满钵满的GPU业务之外，也开始积极布局机器人、自动驾驶、量子计算等前沿方向，力求押中下一个时代风口。在这一过程中，黄仁勋也没少打PC的主意，而在今年年初宣布“Agentic AI拐点已至”后，相关进程明显加速。