Olares to Launch a Personal AI Device Bringing Cloud-Level Performance Home (www.techpowerup.com)

Olares announced Olares One, a desktop “personal AI cloud” designed to bring cloud-level inference and local data ownership to individual users and small teams. Backed by a $45M Series A led by SIG, the pre-sale will launch on Kickstarter in December and the device will be shown at CES 2026. The box packs high-end components—an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile (24 GB GDDR7), Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, and 96 GB RAM—into a whisper‑quiet chassis and ships with open software aimed at running advanced AI models locally. For the AI/ML community this matters because it further normalizes powerful on-premise inference and development hardware outside of data centers. With 24 GB of VRAM and ample system RAM, Olares One can support a wide range of modern models (especially quantized or optimized variants), enable lower-latency interactive workflows, reduce cloud costs, and keep sensitive data on-device for privacy and compliance. The company’s “open like Android” software positioning signals focus on extensibility and running open-source models and tooling, which could accelerate local fine-tuning, multimodal experimentation, and privacy-first deployments for creators and small businesses.