A $3,499 Box Runs a 27B Model Locally, in a Bite

Ghost is selling the opposite of a cloud subscription, and buyers took it.

• Ghost left stealth on October 5, 2026 with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
• Its first product, Core, is a $3,499 screenless computer built to run AI agents locally.
• It bundles an Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU with 24GB, plus 64GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
• Four open weight models ship preinstalled, including Qwen 3.8 27B and Gemma 4 31B.
• Data, model weights and memory stay on the device, and it keeps working if the vendor shuts down.
• The first batch sold out within hours and ships the last week of October.

Read the full breakdown on local inference and what it does to the cloud buildout. A $3,499 Box Puts a 27 Billion Parameter Model on Your Shelf.