The Dev Box’s flat, 3D-printed anodized aluminum chassis doubles as a heatsink and resembles the top air vents of an Xbox Series X. It was introduced alongside the new Surface Laptop Ultra and runs on Nvidia’s Arm-based RTX Spark platform and 128GB of unified memory. With that much memory, along with a 100-watt thermal envelope and Nvidia’s Tensor cores, you could probably get an impressive gaming experience on the Dev Box. But as the name suggests, it is mainly aimed at developers. It is optimized to run local AI, including “models exceeding 120 B parameters,” for tasks such as testing AI models, prototyping AI agents, or running on-device AI coding tools.
The Dev Box is also one of Microsoft’s Project Zenith devices, so it comes with a developer-optimized Windows 11 Pro setup and some pre-installed development tools, including Visual Studio Code, Git, GitHub CLI, GitHub Copilot, WSL, Python, and Node.
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