Zain Javaid, 19, has raised $11 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz for Ghost, his startup building a personal AI computer called Core. Other investors include Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel, and Nova. The founding team includes Nicholas Chua, 19, Yifei Chen, 24, and Gautam Sharda, 23.
Core is a $3,499 desktop computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person’s behalf. It includes an Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU and has its own software layer, browser, and filing system. The device runs models locally and continuously processes information without constant prompting.
Preorders open Monday with shipping scheduled for the last week of October. Javaid described Core as a “brain in a box” without a screen, accessed through a phone or app. It comes with three models preinstalled and allows users to install others from Hugging Face or load their own trained models.
The team builds units at its San Francisco facility. Javaid emphasized user privacy, stating all personal information is encrypted and the device is programmed to keep working if Ghost shuts down. A firewall monitors outgoing network requests to prevent unauthorized data exfiltration.
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