Around the corner: Agentic AI PCs that cut token costs

AI PCs that cut token costs? That may appeal to enterprises. A new breed of agentic AI PCs promises to do exactly that. The powerful laptops can cut token costs by completing AI work locally instead of sending it to expensive LLMs in the cloud. HP’s newly announced ZBook Ultra G3a mobile workstation and upcoming laptops from other PC makers have powerful GPUs and large memory pools designed for AI and graphics. The ZBook Ultra G3a uses an AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro processor, while laptops from other PC makers will feature Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip. Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs have dominated data centers, but the company is now targeting a larger chunk of the PC market with the RTX Spark, which includes a Blackwell RTX GPU. The first wave of RTX Spark laptops coming from Asus, Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers is targeted at consumers, with enterprise models planned for later. HP’s ZBook Ultra PC, on the other hand, is squarely aimed at enterprises. Without connecting to the internet, the PCs can run agents and chatbots, generate video, and write code on AI models with billions of parameters. “It’s the only PC where you have enough memory to run the large models, enough compute to run th…

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