At the age of 19, the founder of Ghost has raised $11 million for a computer designed for personal AI assistants

Led by Andreessen Horowitz, the funding round supports Core, a screenless device costing $3,499 and fitted with an Nvidia Blackwell GPU, designed to continuously run agents that carry out tasks on behalf of its owner.

Ghost comes out of the shadows after a year of development with an $11 million seeding tower led by Andreessen Horowitz, including Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel and Nova. Its founder and CEO, Zain Javaid, is 19 years old; former quantitative analyst, he says he turned to personal AI when he left ChatGPT. The founding team has three other members aged 19-24.

The first product, Core, is a computer designed for AI agents: it centralizes the user's data (office, applications, connected objects) and rotates agents permanently, without waiting for instructions. The enclosure features a Blackwell Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF card, as well as its own browser, software layer and file system. It has no screen: it is piloted from a phone or app, including voice.

Sold 3,499 dollars, Core comes with Qwen-3.8-Next, Qwen-3.8-27B and Gemma-4-31B pre-installed, and accepts other models from Hugging Face or driven by the user. Preorders open this Monday for first deliveries at the end of October. Facing the comparison with a Mac Mini reconverted, Ghost puts forward hardware and software designed from the outset for agents.