Overview
- Ghost emerged from stealth on Monday with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and opened preorders for Core.
- Core is a purpose‑built desktop that Ghost rates at 770 AI TOPS and ships with an NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell GPU, 64 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, and a 6‑core AMD Ryzen 5 processor.
- The machine comes with Qwen‑3.8‑Next, Qwen‑3.8‑27B and Gemma‑4‑31B preinstalled, supports installing models from Hugging Face or user files, and will receive over‑the‑air model updates.
- Ghost says models and a user’s personal memory run locally and are encrypted so third parties, including Ghost, cannot meaningfully access them, and the company plans a network firewall to restrict agent actions.
- The launch reflects a wider move toward on‑device AI that could let people run autonomous assistants without cloud subscriptions but faces questions about real‑world model performance, the $3,499 price, and production scale from Ghost’s San Francisco build site.