Microsoft and NVIDIA push on A.I. local: the era of RTX Spark PCs debuts

Microsoft and NVIDIA have raised the curtain on the next evolution of the personal computer, presenting at the Windows & Surface Event 2026 a platform designed to bring artificial intelligence directly to users' devices. On stage in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang illustrated a strategy that aims to combine the Windows ecosystem with the processing power of the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform. The goal is to enable the local execution of AI models. increasingly complex, reducing dependence on the cloud and paving the way for a new generation of intelligent agents capable of assisting users, developers and professionals in their daily tasks.

Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark at the center of the new strategy

Among the main announcements is the new Surface Laptop Ultra, defined by Microsoft as the most powerful Surface ever made. Powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform, the device will offer up to 128GB of unified memory and up to a petaflop of AI computing power, features designed for local execution of advanced models and professional applications. Alongside the notebook, the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box also debuts, a system dedicated to developers for creating and running AI applications. directly on Windows. Also previewed at the event was a version of NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows, aimed at the enterprise market and designed to support large AI models and agents within organizations.

Windows focuses on AI agents and “Hybrid Intelligence”

The most significant innovation, however, concerns the software. Microsoft presented its vision of “Hybrid Intelligence,” an approach that combines local computing and cloud services to make Windows a native platform for AI agents. The company demonstrated new experiences built into the operating system, tools for safely running agents through Microsoft Execution Containers technology, and tighter integration between Windows and GitHub Copilot. After the season of A.I. services in the cloud, therefore, Microsoft follows the path of the other big names in the sector, with the intention of transforming the PC into a platform capable of hosting and running advanced models directly on the device, without personal (and corporate) data traveling on external servers. A strategy which, Microsoft explains, aims to redefine the role of Windows in the era of artificial intelligence.