The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs

ingen0s

I am confused as to weather this is software or a product

raajg

Is it just me, or others are also weirded out with that website being all images including all the text

ByteOfWood

This entire page (except for the footer) is made with images. Is there any reason they would do this? Are they making these images by hand or are they generated somehow? Just seems like an unusual choice.

makefu

The kickstarter comments page of this product does not look so glamorous ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiinyai/tiiny-ai-pocket... )

tristanj

I don't understand the value proposition here. This device is selling for $1,999. In the product page on their website, they show the device plugged into a MacBook Pro. A MacBook Pro already has excellent ability to run local LLMs, so why wouldn't someone just spend that $1,999 on maxing out their MacBook specs (M5 Max with extra RAM) instead? Or why not buy a Mac Mini with 48GB of RAM for $2300?

simonw

I hope for their sake they bought all the RAM they needed to fulfill those Kickstarter orders at least six months ago.

amazingamazing

Pretty decent but needs more details. Overall I give it a thumbs down. You can buy a 64GB Macbook Pro M1 Max in pretty good condition right now for a good bit less than 2K. In practice you are better off: - if youre in the mac ecosystem using 2k and upgrading to the ultra class chip next time you want to buy - if youre into windows wait for the next ryzen ai max chip slated for next year. - if you want desktop consider gx10 given that you need a computer to use this anyway In retrospect it is crazy how good the m1 max series is given the amount of ram and memory bandwidth.

majorchord

Ancient models, at < 30t/s, for $2,000? Neat device but I'll have to pass.

alsetmusic

Compatible with Mac and Windows, but no Linux support? That's an odd choice. I would have picked Mac and Linux and de-prioritized Windows as a nice-to-have when there's time to get around to it.

vkaku

It's a good step in the right direction. Hardware reliability and testing needs to happen. Tell me how long it can run without heating up.