World's smallest mini PC that's about the size of a smartphone unveiled
A tech company has created the world’s smallest mini PC that’s roughly the same size as a smartphone.
The Tiiny AI Pocket Lab measures 142.0 mm (5.59 in) in length, 80.0 mm (3.15 in) in width and 25.3 mm (1 in) in height.
Created by Tiiny AI Inc (USA), it was officially awarded the record for smallest mini PC (100B LLM Locally) on 2 December.
The Tiiny AI Pocket Lab is the first pocket-sized device in AI supercomputing and is capable of running up to a full 120 billion parameter large language model (LLM) entirely on-device without the need for cloud connectivity, servers or high-end GPUs.
Designed for energy-efficient personal intelligence, the PC runs within a 65W power envelope and can enable large-model performance at a fraction of the energy and carbon footprint of traditional GPU-based systems.
The device represents a major shift in the trajectory of the AI industry. As cloud-based AI increasingly struggles with sustainability concerns, rising energy costs, global outages, the prohibitive costs of long-context processing, and growing privacy risks, Tiiny AI introduces an alternative model centered on personal, portable, and fully private intelligence. According to Tiiny AI, the real bottleneck in today’s AI ecosystem “is not computing power, it is dependence on the cloud”.
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“Cloud AI has brought remarkable progress, but it also created dependency, vulnerability, and sustainability challenges,” said Samar Bhoj, GTM Director of Tiiny AI.
“With Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, we believe intelligence shouldn’t belong to data centres, but to people. This is the first step toward making advanced AI truly accessible, private, and personal, by bringing the power of large models from the cloud to every individual device.”
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab is designed to support nearly all major personal AI use cases, serving developers, researchers, creators, professionals, and students. It enables multi-step reasoning, deep context understanding, agent workflows, content generation, and secure processing of sensitive information, even without internet access. The device also provides true long-term personal memory by storing user data, preferences, and documents locally with bank-level encryption, offering a level of privacy and persistence that cloud-based AI systems cannot provide.
