Asus has announced the Asus NUC 14 Pro AI, its first Copilot Plus-enabled AI mini PC, packing an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor into a form factor similar to the black M4 Mac Mini. First announced at IFA in September, ASUS has provided a little more detail about the mini PC’s specs than before, but hasn’t said yet whether it will be available or how much it will cost.
The NUC 14 Pro AI comes in five CPU configurations, ranging from a Core Ultra 5 226V processor with 16 GB of integrated RAM to a Core Ultra 9 288V processor with 32 GB of RAM. The company says it has up to 67 TOPS of GPU performance and 48 TOPS of NPU TOPS, and the M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 x 4 slot supports NVMe SSDs from 256GB to 2TB.
All this packed into a PC that’s just 130mm deep and wide and just 34mm tall. By comparison, the Mac Mini is 127 mm deep and wide and 50 mm high. Below is a photo from Asus’ website.
The Asus NUC 14 Pro AI features a fingerprint sensor on the top and a Copilot button on the front for speaking voice commands to Microsoft’s AI assistant. Also on the front are two USB-A ports, a Thunderbolt 4 port, a headphone jack, and a power button. On the back, you’ll find a 2.5Gbps Ethernet jack, another Thunderbolt 4 port, two more USB-A ports, and an HDMI port. In terms of connectivity, it has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
Asus has not yet revealed when the NUC 14 Pro AI will be released or how much it will cost.
