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I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

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Re: I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

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Post by throwa356262 »

fwipsy wrote: post #6

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 th…

As SBC hardware goes, CIX P1 is actually pretty respectable. It uses modern-ish ARM cores when everyone else are using something from 10 years ago. So performance is pretty good:

https://wp.pureprogrammer.org/2025/12/20/comparison-of-orang...

But yeah, this should have been priced like 2x of a maxed out Raspberry Pi 5.

Re: I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

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Post by az09mugen »

onoesworkacct wrote: post #19
dvt wrote: post #16

I genuinely feel disrespected if AI is used to write an article and it's not disclosed in the first paragraph. It's not really that big of a deal, tbh, it's like saying "I took a picture, I didn't paint it." Which is fine, but please disclose it. Otherwise, like in this case, I'm going to assume the author is a moron that can't write for shit who thinks their readers are morons that can't read for shit.

Agree. Also because of the way AI writes, it takes SO LONG to read through it (they're trained on blogspam where the page tells you the author's life story as well as the bloody history of bread before telling you how to bake it)

That's why in this case I usually ask to another AI to make me a short summary with the main points. I wish the human behind the looong article idea chooses to publish a short summary directly instead.

Re: I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

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Post by DeathArrow »

TLDR:

>For perspective: a consumer NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (~$400) can run comparable 3B active-parameter MoE workloads at 70–90 tok/s with 100K+ context, depending on setup. The Pocket Lab lands around 6–12 tok/s at 8K–32K context.

>Same class of workload. Roughly 5–10× slower, at 3× the price, with tighter constraints.

Re: I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos

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Post by VogonPoetry »

dvt wrote: post #16

I genuinely feel disrespected if AI is used to write an article and it's not disclosed in the first paragraph. It's not really that big of a deal, tbh, it's like saying "I took a picture, I didn't paint it." Which is fine, but please disclose it. Otherwise, like in this case, I'm going to assume the author is a moron that can't write for shit who thinks their readers are morons that can't read for shit.

Please can you explain the evidence that this is generated content.

Yes, the site is new, but other posted articles are 100% consistent with the author wanting a guaranteed level of local inference with large models.

What I read was written by a skeptic who took claims and systematically addressed a number of issues. The debunking was concise and used simple sentences.

The boxes in the pictures were, to my eyes, generated manually using the macOS Preview annotation feature. They are not well aligned. I've used this technique many times to general overlays. If this were me, I'd get called out. I like nicely spaced and proportioned boxes! NB: iFixit tear downs are mis-aligned as well and it bugs me.

People have a distasteful habit of assigning others into boxes. Particularly if that box currently has a negative connotation. Boxing is a primary tool of the; misguided, bullies, sycophants, censors and those with an unspoken agenda. Humor: Which box applies?

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