Technology and Science05 October, 20262 min read
Ghost Exits Stealth With $3,499 Core And $11 Million Seed Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
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Ghost raised $11 million seed led by Andreessen Horowitz to launch Core. Core costs $3,499 and runs models locally on-device, with internet for web search.
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Ghost’s $3,499 Core
Ghost emerged from stealth with a $3,499 personal AI computer called Core, and TechCrunch reported that the company announced the exit alongside an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ghost’s Core is described as “runs models entirely on device,” and Ghost’s support page says Core “runs AI entirely on-device with no subscription.”
Ghost’s support page also says Core “still needs an internet connection for web search, email and over-the-air software updates & fixes,” even as it positions the device as local-first. Ghost’s privacy policy says Core “does not use a remote AI model as a fallback for its local conversational AI or memory processing,” while it adds that “Online features can still send task information to external services.”
Hardware and models
Ghost’s product page lists a stainless-steel enclosure for Core and specifies an NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition GPU with 24 GB of GDDR7 ECC memory and 432 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Ghost’s pages also list an AMD Ryzen 5 7600 with 6 cores and 12 threads, 64 GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1 TB NVMe SSD.
Ghost’s pages list four models for Core, including Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B and Muse-Glimmer-30B, while TechCrunch’s account lists three of them without Muse-Glimmer-30B. Ghost’s home page says Core “connects to your apps, files, and devices, builds context on your life over time, and works continuously to help you, not just when you ask.”
Local privacy and firewall
Ghost’s privacy policy says the company’s gateway forwards content “without saving it in databases, logs or backups,” and it warns that the decision not to store forwarded content “is not a guarantee that the provider does not store it.” Ghost’s support page says Core provides an endpoint compatible with the OpenAI Responses API so local models can power other apps, scripts and agents “with no per-token inference fees.”
TechCrunch quotes Zain Javaid describing Core as “a brain in a box,” and TechCrunch reports that Core has no screen and users access it through a phone or app. TechCrunch says Ghost is building a firewall that “monitors every outgoing network request on the computer and if it sees the agent performing a sanctioned action or exfiltrating data it shouldn’t, it rejects the request and flags it for user review.”