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The $5,899 128GB Surface Laptop Ultra has sold out on preorder before its Oct. 16 ship date, with demand for on-device AI exhausting supply of the highest-end model featuring an Nvidia RTX Spark chip. The laptop anchors Microsoft's "Hybrid Intelligence" strategy using a model router to delegate tasks between local hardware and the cloud, and the company also made its Execution Containers agent sandbox generally available on Windows 11 and introduced a $5,999 RTX Spark Dev Box for enterprise development.
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- SOURCE@jun_song“The top spec with 128GB of RAM costs $5,899, and it is already gone before launch day.”x.com
- SUPPORT@intcyberdigest“Microsoft claims up to 2.1x faster time to first token, 4.3x faster AI image generation and 6.2x faster AI video generation than a 16-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro”x.com
- SUPPORT@abidlabs“The Windows launch event today has mentioned "local AI" 41 times (so far)”x.com
- SUPPORT@jun_song“Every consumer device from here on out will be judged by one thing: whether it can run local AI.”x.com
- SUPPORT@theahmadosman“nobody would've thought that Microsoft would come out to say Hybrid AI is the future and here's the hardware + models to do a lot of things locally”x.com
- SUPPORT@kyleichan“Microsoft showing off the ability to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally on a Surface laptop.”x.com
- SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“DeepSeek V4 Flash, a 284B-parameter open-weight model, runs locally on a Windows PC once quantized to 1.6 bits, which brings it down to about 60GB of memory.”x.com
- SUPPORT@pavandavuluri“Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) is now generally available on Windows 11, keeping agents contained within boundaries the operating system enforces.”x.com