At 19, Ghost founder raises $11 million to build a $3,499 computer for your personal AI

Ghost’s $11 million seed round underscores growing investor confidence in on-device, personal AI as a new computing category—one that shifts workloads, memory, and decision-making from cloud services to local hardware. For CIOs, the strategic implication is a future where AI agents may run continuously on dedicated devices, raising new requirements for endpoint management, identity and access controls, data governance, and policies for autonomous actions outside traditional SaaS oversight.