
DGX Spark Review: NVIDIA's $4,699 Desktop AI Box
A hands-on review of the NVIDIA DGX Spark - a 128 GB Grace Blackwell mini PC that promises 1 petaflop of AI performance on your desk for $4,699.
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A hands-on review of the NVIDIA DGX Spark - a 128 GB Grace Blackwell mini PC that promises 1 petaflop of AI performance on your desk for $4,699.

A complete guide to setting up the NVIDIA DGX Spark - from unboxing and first boot to running LLM inference, fine-tuning models, and optimizing performance.

CoreWeave stock plunged nearly 19% after Q4 earnings revealed widening losses, an 894% debt-to-equity ratio, and plans to spend up to $35 billion on data center expansion in 2026.

DeepSeek has denied Nvidia and AMD pre-release access to its upcoming V4 model while granting Huawei and domestic Chinese chipmakers a multi-week optimization window, signaling a strategic pivot toward building a parallel AI software ecosystem on Chinese silicon.

Meta has agreed to rent Google's Ironwood TPUs through Google Cloud to train next-generation AI models, adding a third major chip supplier alongside Nvidia and AMD in a single month.

OpenAI has finalized a $110 billion funding round backed by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank, valuing the company at $730 billion pre-money. But $35 billion of Amazon's commitment hinges on an IPO or AGI milestone.

Nvidia posted record Q4 revenue of $68.1 billion, beat EPS by 6%, guided Q1 to $78 billion above all estimates, and the stock still fell 4.33% the next day. The AI trade has entered a new phase where beating expectations is no longer enough.

Nvidia reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $68.1 billion - beating Wall Street estimates by nearly $2 billion - and guided Q1 to $78 billion, sending shares above $200 for the first time.

Comparing Moonshot AI's trillion-parameter Kimi K2.5 with NVIDIA's Mamba2-MoE hybrid Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B - frontier intelligence versus a model engineered for maximum throughput, 1M context, and 10x lower cost.

Three AI chip startups - MatX, SambaNova, and Axelera - raised a combined $1.1 billion in one week, signaling an acceleration in the race to break Nvidia's GPU dominance.

A senior Trump administration official confirms DeepSeek trained its upcoming AI model on Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, despite US export controls banning the hardware from reaching China.

NVIDIA's hybrid Mamba2+MoE model packs 31.6B total parameters but activates only 3.2B per token, delivering frontier-class reasoning with 3.3x the throughput of comparable models on a single H200 GPU.