Tenstorrent Unveils TT-QuietBox™ 2 Desktop AI System for Local Model Inference
SANTA CLARA, CA – 16/03/2026 – ( SeaPRwire ) – AI computing company Tenstorrent has introduced the TT-QuietBox 2 (Blackhole ), a liquid-cooled desktop AI workstation designed to run large-scale machine learning models locally while maintaining quiet operation suitable for office or laboratory environments. The new system enables developers and organizations to execute models containing up to 120 billion parameters directly on a workstation, offering teraflop-class inference performance in a compact desktop form factor. The product represents what the company describes as the first desktop AI workstation based on RISC-V architecture to reach this level of inference capability. Starting at $9,999, the system is built with an entirely open-source software stack spanning the compiler, kernel, and developer tooling layers. Inference Workloads Drive Demand for Local AI Compute Industry trends have increasingly shifted toward inference as the dominant artificial intelligence workload. A...