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Tiiny AI (domestic entity Benzhi Activation, Shanghai Xuhui; U.S. entity Tiiny AI Inc., incorporated in 2024) was incubated by the Parallel and Distributed Systems Research Lab (IPADS) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Its core technologies include the open-source inference acceleration engine PowerInfer (with ~9,100 stars on GitHub and a SOSP 2024 paper) and TurboSparse sparse activation. Its flagship product, Tiiny AI Pocket, is a 300g mobile-sized on-device AI supercomputer (SoC + dNPU, 190 TOPS INT8) that can run large models of up to 120B parameters offline and is compatible with over 50 open-source models. It has been certified by Guinness World Records as the 'smallest MiniPC capable of running a 100B+ parameter model locally' and was showcased at CES 2026. In March 2026, it raised over $10 million on Kickstarter within 5 hours and a total of approximately $2.95 million (with 2,093 supporters). The starting price is $1,299-1,399, with expected delivery in August 2026 (manufactured by Lcfc with production lines in Vietnam). On July 30, 2026, it announced a Series A funding round of tens of millions of dollars (led by Shunwei, Matrix, Qiuqiu, Yunque, Gobi-ALI HK, BV Baidu Venture, and LightL2F). Previously, in 2025, it had also raised tens of millions of RMB in a seed round led by Guangqi Capital.

Ghost, founded in 2025 in San Francisco, makes Core, a screenless $3,499 personal computer that runs autonomous personal AI agents entirely on-device with no subscription or cloud dependency. Core aggregates a user's files, apps, screen history, wearables and smart-home data, is accessed via a companion phone app with voice mode, and ships with an Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU and preinstalled open-weight models.

Violoop, founded in 2025 in Shenzhen, China, is an AI hardware company that enables physical-level computer automation control via HDMI, USB HID, and a local NPU, positioning itself as a 'Physical AI Operator / AI-PC Agent.'

KP Labs develops onboard computing hardware (data processing units), flight software and AI algorithms that let satellites process Earth observation data in orbit, reducing downlink bandwidth and latency.

Brilliant Labs, founded in Singapore in 2019, makes open-source AR wearables; its debut product Monocle is a $349 clip-on AR lens that attaches to any eyeglasses and is designed to embed generative AI capabilities into wearable devices.

AI smart-home hardware (AI voice router / AI NAS / AI compute box)