CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer

Unsurprisingly, AI is in all places at CES 2026 they usually normally come within the type of wearables.

Nevertheless, AI PCs, computer systems constructed to deal with all varieties of Giant Language Fashions (LLMs) are additionally having a second at CES.

A type of merchandise making its debut at CES, the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, has created a transportable AI supercomputer that is not fairly a wearable, however its so tiny which you could match it in your pocket.

Tiiny AI’s AI supercomputer, known as the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab or Tiiny for brief, was first proven to media on the Pepcom occasion at CES this week. Mashable was capable of get a hands-on and check out Tiiny’s capabilities and likewise observe simply how tiny it’s.

The very first thing we observed on the Tiiny AI sales space was its Guinness World Information certificates naming the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab the official “world’s smallest mini PC.”

Tiiny AI sales space at CES
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At first look, Tiiny AI might be confused for a transportable energy financial institution. It is rectangular in form and appears a bit brick-like. It is so small that it matches within the palm of your hand. It is also extraordinarily gentle.

Once more, we’re speaking about a pc right here. Tiiny AI has managed to pack in a whopping 80GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage into this miniature system to ensure that it to really be capable to deal with intensive AI processing. 

Why would you want a high-performance PC for AI? Tiiny AI does all of its AI processing proper on the system. Nothing leaves this mini supercomputer. In the event you’re privacy-minded and don’t desire your entire knowledge uploaded to the cloud or simply do not need to pay for any extra subscriptions, an AI pc is what you need. Tiiny AI desires to supply essentially the most transportable answer.

Tiiny AI has additionally constructed a corresponding desktop app to work with Tiiny so you do not have to be an AI developer or programmer to know the best way to run AI fashions in your system. Tiiny’s app offers easy use for dozens of various fashions, together with generative AI fashions that create photographs and video.

Tiiny AI isn’t any larger than an influence financial institution
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Testing out the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab’s capabilities, it responded to prompts fairly rapidly and generated content material simply as quick, if not sooner, than many in style cloud AI providers. The Tiiny system I used had been operating all through the day and, surprisingly, it wasn’t sizzling in any respect. It wasn’t even that heat. That is attention-grabbing as a result of a standard characteristic for full-sized AI PCs is the flexibility to deal with the excessive temperatures these computer systems can attain because of the intrusive AI processing. For a mini pc to have the ability to pull this off is fairly spectacular. 

The Tiiny AI Pocket Lab will likely be launched on Kickstarter throughout the subsequent few months and can retail for $1,399 – dear for a mini-computer, however within the extra inexpensive vary in the case of AI computer systems.