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Nvidia says they deliver up to one petaflop of AI compute and up to 128GB of unified memory; the company's announcement does not identify which configurations reach those maximums.\n\nNvidia marked the launch with retail events in six cities: Berlin, Beijing, Istanbul, Seoul, San Francisco and Taipei. The company said the events offered hands-on demonstrations of the laptops and their gaming, creative and local-AI capabilities.\n\nIn Berlin, the launch celebration took place at XPERION, a gaming venue inside Saturn at Alexanderplatz, during the city's Festival of Lights. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a surprise appearance, greeted attendees and gave away five personally signed laptops, the company said.\n\nNvidia also pointed developers and AI enthusiasts to its collection of tested recipes, playbooks and other resources for running local AI on RTX Spark. 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