Startup backed by the world's largest battery maker just launched a supercheap mini PC that competes with Nvidia's $5000 AI DGX Spark PC

AI powerhouse that runs 100 billion parameter models without giant servers

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News By Efosa Udinmwen Published 2 August 2026

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  • Tiny desktop system claims massive language model performance at dramatically lower costs
  • Proprietary G≡LIX 1 chip delivers 700 TOPS for local AI workloads
  • Agent Box runs advanced AI models entirely without relying on cloud services

Singapore-based startup Acrab has unveiled the Agent Box, a mini PC built to run 100 billion parameter language models entirely on local hardware.

The device is powered by a proprietary chip called G≡LIX 1, manufactured using a 5nm process for efficient edge computing.

Acrab claims the system delivers performance close to Nvidia's $5,000 DGX Spark while cutting costs to roughly one-fifth and halving power consumption.

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A custom chip built for local AI workloads

The G≡LIX 1 processor combines a 20-core Arm CPU, a GPU rated at 3 TFLOPS, and a multicore neural processing unit tuned specifically for large language model inference.

It draws on 273GB/s of high-bandwidth unified memory alongside an 8MB L1 cache and a 768GB/s L2 cache.

Acrab says the chip reaches 700 TOPS of processing power while keeping the entire system compact enough to sit on a desk.

The NPU is balanced against the general-purpose compute unit, and VAE vector acceleration reportedly speeds up attention processing by up to three times.

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