Three weeks into a fine-tuning project, a two-person research team asks for one last quote on the local AI workstation they saved for since spring.
Same $4,999 price tag.
Half the memory.
That is this hardware cycle in one line.
The original Nvidia DGX Spark launched at $3,999, climbed to $4,699 and then $4,999, and the memory underneath it never stopped moving.
The 64 GB model that replaces the 128 GB model at the same price lands October 23 from Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI.
Want the 128 GB version today?
Plan on $7,000 to $9,000, and patience with stock.
The part worth sitting with is what that does to a small team's plan.
Nothing was missing from their side.
What stopped them was a $4,999 capital decision about memory they did not need, in a market they do not control.
So they stopped waiting.
Renting compute moved the first training run to this week instead of next quarter, at RTX 3090 rates of $0.15/hr and storage at $2.49/TB per month.
Buy Now Pay Later covers it with zero upfront and payment after one month.
What experiment are you still waiting on hardware to unlock?
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Originally posted on LinkedIn