Overview
- Ghost emerged from stealth with an $11 million seed led by Andreessen Horowitz and opened pre-orders for Core, a move the company announced on Monday.
- Core is a screenless, desk‑side box that Ghost says includes an NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell GPU with 24 GB GDDR7, 64 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, a 6‑core AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU and a company rating of about 770 AI TOPS.
- Ghost is selling Core for $3,499, took refundable pre‑orders and says the first batch will ship in late October, with the company indicating an initial ship date around October 31.
- The company says Core ships with three preinstalled models (Qwen‑3.8‑Next, Qwen‑3.8‑27B and Gemma‑4‑31B), lets users install models from Hugging Face or their own weights, and will push over‑the‑air model updates.
- Ghost frames Core around local control and privacy—promising encrypted on‑device memory, stored model weights, a firewall to monitor agent network actions and autonomy controls—but those security and behavior claims come from the company and are not independently verified; success will depend on real‑world implementation, price acceptance and competition.