TiinyAI's $1,299 Pocket Lab raises $1.7M on Kickstarter despite reverse-engineering revealing impossible 120B AI claims, hidden specs, forked research, and four-person mystery team.

I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab From Marketing Photos. Here's Why Your $1,400 Is Probably Gone.

I wanted the TiinyAI Pocket Lab to be real.I just finished a five-month painful journey with NVIDIA’s DGX Spark, a $3,999 “personal AI supercomputer” that turned out to be bandwidth-kneecapped to protect NVIDIA’s datacenter business. I wrote about it here. Long story short, NVIDIA hid the one number that mattered, 273 GB/s memory bandwidth, behind impressive-sounding specs like “128GB unified memory!” and “1 PFLOP FP4!” I trusted them, I bought it, I got played and I sold it at a loss.That was a...