MSI has revealed a new gaming desktop with a holographic AI assistant built right into the front of the PC. The AI appears as a virtual avatar inside MSI’s new “AI Holostage” display and can help users monitor system performance, switch performance modes, control RGB lighting, adjust monitor settings, and use AI features using voice or commands. Specs: - Intel Core Ultra processor - Up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics - DDR5 memory - PCIe 5.0 SSD storage - Wi-Fi 7 connectivity - 5G Ethernet - Thunderbolt 5 support - 360mm liquid cooling system - Up to 3400 TOPS AI performance - MSI AI Holostage holographic display with AI avatar The desktop is designed for high-end gaming and AI workloads. MSI has yet to announce official pricing, but I think it will be very expensive.

FOR 40 YEARS YOU LAUNCHED APPS. Click. Type. Wait. NVIDIA and Microsoft just ended that era. RTX Spark is a 1-petaflop superchip built into a laptop thin enough to be 14mm and light enough to be 3 pounds. Not a data center. Not a cloud subscription. A laptop that runs 120-billion-parameter models with 1 million token context locally, privately, and offline. Hermes Agent and OpenClaw are already building native Windows apps for it. Adobe is rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up for it. Jensen Huang called it the new PC. 128GB unified memory. Full Blackwell GPU. All-day battery. The PC just stopped being a tool. It became a teammate. Available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI. Follow @neil_xbt for more AI and hardware intelligence.

Microsoft just dropped the most powerful laptop EVER. Surface Laptop Ultra is a 15-inch NVIDIA-powered laptop built to run local AI models, creative work, and gaming. NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Arm superchip: 20 Arm cores + Blackwell GPU (6,144 CUDA) 128GB unified memory Runs 120B models locally All packed into a thin laptop that barely throttles when you unplug it. But the specs aren't the story. The story is what it's built for. Running AI agents locally. On your machine. No cloud. No internet. 24/7. Your personal AI doesn't live on someone else's server anymore. It lives inside your laptop. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI are all shipping devices with this chip. Microsoft just put their name on the flagship. Coming Fall 2026. The laptop hasn't changed in three decades. This is the moment it finally did. This is the future of agentic PCs. Big win for creators and devs.