I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos
20 points by davidklemke 4 days ago | 7 comments

gnabgib 2 minutes ago
Previously (23 points, 6 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395786

Including questions of LLM origin

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fwipsy 13 minutes ago
Tl;Dr it's actually a CIX p1 + 32gb (similar to orange pi 6) and a "160TOPS" NPU accelerator with 48gb - attached via NVME. models will either have to fit in one pool or deal with shuttling data over m.2, the company has some optimizations regarding this but it's still a serious limitation.

There you go, two sentences without burying the lede.

Is it maybe competitive value anyways though? Even if you only think of the accelerators, 48gb+160TOPS seems comparable to some Strix Halo mini PCS with 64gb - lower memory bandwidth but a few hundred dollars cheaper. If they sold just the accelerator card for $800 or something that would be potentially very interesting.

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smartbit 3 days ago
Great research and write-up, maybe a bit too elaborate.

Will be interesting to see if a public outcry will happen once these boxes start arriving at those who funded the kickstarter.

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buildbot 2 hours ago
It’s LLM slop and very shallow, in my opinion.
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shotnothing 5 minutes ago
whats shallow about the research? it all seems to check out?
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qwe----3 2 hours ago
The blogpost?
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pushfoo 29 minutes ago
ctrl-f for "This isn't" and note how many instances of this pattern there are:

> This isn't X. It's Y.

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