Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVIDIA hardware. New compact NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows PCs are also coming in October to give AI enthusiasts, developers and creators more ways to run capable agents locally and securely.
Today’s announcements include:
Simplified local AI support for NVIDIA GPUs is coming in Hermes Agent, OpenClaw and Perplexity Portable Computer.
Up to 1.9x faster local inference — new llama.cpp and vLLM optimizations are available now directly and through LM Studio and Ollama.
NVIDIA PAIR — a Personal AI Router tool that intelligently distributes AI inference across the PCs on a user’s local network.
