Nvidia said Tuesday that it was introducing a $249 version of its Jetson computer for artificial-intelligence applications, half the price of its predecessor, to attract more hobbyists and small companies. The Jetson computers are essentially portable brains, mostly designed to allow developers of robots, industrial automation and other hardware to run sophisticated AI computations directly without connecting to a remote data center. Nvidia’s main customers are big companies and AI startups that spend hundreds of millions or billions of dollars on hardware to train and operate their AI models. With its Jetson lineup, the company is making a play for accessibility, pitching the low-cost devices to small companies, hobbyists and students who want to try creating new products that integrate AI functions. In a promotional video, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang broke from his usual stagecraft—posing before towering server racks that use Nvidia chips—and instead presented the new palm-sized Jetson device on a tray, as if pulling it fresh from the oven.

Full report : NVIDIA Unveils Jetson Orin Nano Super, A $249 Palm-Sized AI Robotics Supercomputer.