Tenstorrent Quietbox 2 AI Workstation Arrives for Developers
A developer has received the Tenstorrent Quietbox 2, a desktop AI workstation designed to run large models like 70B LLMs. The system features 256 GB of system memory and 128 GB of interconnected GDDR6 memory across its accelerators. Priced at $9,999, the Quietbox 2 offers a more accessible, PC-sized alternative to Nvidia's dominant hardware for local LLM execution and AI development. It highlights Tenstorrent's push to provide scalable, open-source-supported hardware for the AI developer community. The workstation is powered by four of Tenstorrent's custom Blackhole AI accelerators and features a fully open-source software stack. The developer noted the system's impressive interconnect scalability and expressed plans to test various models on this unique architecture.
## BACKGROUND
Tenstorrent is a hardware startup led by chip pioneer Jim Keller, focusing on RISC-V based AI processors and chiplet architectures. Unlike traditional GPUs, Tenstorrent's architecture uses Tensix cores and a Network-on-Chip (NoC) design to optimize data flow and efficiency for AI workloads.