The NVIDIA Coffee Warmer Platform
- Rich Washburn
- Oct 20
- 1 min read

Introducing the NVIDIA Coffee Warmer Platform — the world’s first one-petaflop beverage stabilizer.
That’s right. A desktop AI supercomputer powerful enough to run Llama 3.1 70B or GPT-OSS 120B, and it just so happens to keep your coffee warm while it does it.
And I need one. Right now.
Let’s rewind for a second. In the 1970s, when I was born, you’d need about six million supercomputers—an entire town’s worth—costing $55 trillion to hit one petaflop of compute.
By the late ‘90s, when the internet still screamed at you through a modem, that number had dropped to $42 billion.
Then IBM finally cracked 1 PF in 2008 for a mere $100 million, pulling 2.35 megawatts just to stay on.
Fast forward to today:
For about $3,999, you can have the same compute power on your desk. No datacenter. No jet-engine cooling. Just a sleek little box humming next to your mug.
Give it a few months, and open-source models will catch up to GPT-5 territory.Which means you’ll be running your own private AI coding agent, fully local — right on the world’s most powerful coffee warmer.
And here’s the kicker: this tiny box could actually pop the AI valuation bubble. Local compute at this scale will drive prices down, decentralize power, and put elite AI capability into anyone’s hands.
So yeah — the DGX Spark might just democratize AI for the planet.But for now?I just want it on my desk, gently toasting my espresso while training a 70-billion-parameter model.
