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# Microsoft Launches $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra With Local AI Edge Over Apple

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**Published:** 2026-10-07T18:10:22.000Z
**Category:** Products
**Topics:** microsoft, llm, agent, devtools, inference

## Summary

Microsoft launched the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,599, featuring a 15 inch PixelSense touchscreen, Nvidia chips for local AI performance, and support for running Nvidia Nemotron and DeepSeek V4 Flash models, with additional hardware including an RTX Spark dev box priced at $5,999\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/microsoft-launches-2599-surface-laptop-ultra-with-local-ai-edge-over-app-245f1b50>)
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- [Story source](<https://x.com/raywongy/status/2107890367031070976>)
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- [Story source](<https://x.com/raywongy/status/2107889110811889778>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/raywongy/status/2107888687216504902>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2107890333585682436>)