Violoop External AI Accelerator Hardware with 26 TOPS NPU for Local Vision and Automation
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The Violoop External AI Accelerator is a compact hardware device designed to bring powerful local artificial intelligence capabilities to standard computers without requiring a complete system upgrade. By connecting via a single USB-C cable, the device functions as an external monitor that captures HDMI signals along with mouse and keyboard inputs, effectively allowing the AI to "see" and interact with the user's screen in real-time. At its core lies an ALK 3675 chip featuring a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) capable of 26 TOPS, paired with 13 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. This architecture enables the execution of large language models and vision-based agents locally, ensuring that sensitive data such as emails, financial records, and personal chats remain on the device rather than being transmitted to the cloud.
A primary advantage of this hardware is its ability to automate repetitive tasks with high security and efficiency by analyzing screen content directly. Unlike traditional software agents that must send every pixel to a remote server for processing, Violoop compresses visual data into structural information locally, reducing token usage by 99% and allowing complex models to run on the device itself. The system includes pre-fine-tuned models for specific functions like screen analysis, security monitoring, and task orchestration, while also supporting integration with major cloud providers like OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek via API keys for more complex operations when necessary. To further enhance privacy, the device incorporates physical security chips that require a manual button press to authorize sensitive actions, ensuring that no data leaves the local environment without explicit user confirmation.
The device is particularly useful for users who want to leverage AI assistance without migrating their existing digital lives or dealing with the risks associated with cloud-based agents that may be blocked by legacy software lacking APIs. By simulating real mouse and keyboard movements rather than injecting simulated inputs, Violoop can interact with websites and applications that actively block automation scripts, effectively bypassing captchas and access restrictions. The system also features a proactive mode where users can customize which applications the AI is allowed to monitor, providing granular control over privacy settings. Additionally, the hardware supports voice activation and mobile app synchronization, allowing users to issue commands or receive suggestions from anywhere, making it an accessible tool for non-technical users, such as elderly family members, to manage daily tasks like sending emails or filing taxes with minimal instruction.
Looking ahead, Violoop plans to release a refined version of the device that utilizes a single USB 4 cable for a more elegant design while maintaining compatibility with older computers and various display standards. The company is currently launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund production, offering early bird pricing and founder gift packs to supporters who reserve units before the official launch in mid-September. Shipping is scheduled for the end of October, positioning the product as a timely solution for those seeking advanced local AI automation before the holiday season. Ultimately, the vision behind Violoop is to create a personal digital companion that learns user habits over time, grows with their workflow, and handles complex administrative duties autonomously, freeing users to focus on creative work while traveling or relaxing without needing to carry their entire computing setup.
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Hi, my name is Enoch and uh right now we
have this product called V Loop and uh
what it does is a very elegant design
and what it does is you just need to
connect uh you just need to connect the
USB
>> type-C on and uh it will get the signal
for the HDMI and also like uh the mouse
and keyboard signal. So what it what it
will do is it will see your screen
>> like a real person.
>> See everything you do.
>> Yeah.
>> And then uh this one has Oh,
>> let me just start. Sorry.
>> Sorry, let me just cut there. Uh so it
has a AI accelerator chip in there.
>> Yes.
>> So what's your chip?
>> Uh we got we got the ALK uh 3675 chips
in there. So it got a MPU unit with 26
tops in there and uh we got a AI
accelerator and also
128
GB of uh hard drive inside. So all your
chat data, local datas, uh memory data
is going to store here. So
>> RAM is it 16 GB? Huh? 16 GB RAM or 8?
>> Uh it's uh 8 uh 8 + 5. So it's uh 8 GB
plus five because
>> kind like 13 or something.
>> Yeah. 13. 13. So we got the AI
accelerator like basically on there.
>> And then you can run a cool model on
there. You can run a model locally on
this box.
>> Yes.
>> Without using internet necessarily.
>> Yes. Uh so right now we have four
fine-tuned model in there. One of those
is uh a Gemma E4B model and uh it is uh
is fine tuned like to handle various
tasks. And the other model is uh because
one of the specialties that we have is
uh it can see your screen all the time
and uh because they see your screen all
the time. So we have a fine-tuned uh
vision model inside. So compared to uh
software agent you have to send every
single pixel to the cloud. It doesn't
have to do that.
>> You can analyze everything kind of you
can try to automate some things.
>> Uh it can analyze your screen compress
it into a structural data. So the token
usage is 99% less and therefore it can
be run on a local model. So uh
>> and then for example if you always do
the same thing you always check your
email you always uh go on this website
or something it can also actually do it
by itself.
>> Oh yeah of course the first time you
learn it and then if it understand it
right and then uh we can turn it into a
skill and therefore it can rerun over
and over again. So it'll learn about
your repetitive task and uh keep going.
And the advantage is that you can do it
with more security because everything is
local potentially.
>> Correct. If you want and yes correct and
second thing is like uh we have uh
security chips inside. So what it will
do is any sensitive data. So for example
like u uh sending email to your
important client or like credit card
information.
>> Yeah.
>> You don't send this.
>> We don't send this. Uh actually no. uh
what happened is we are hardcoded it
into the security chips. So it will
always trigger and only if you do a
physical click and confirmation it will
go through. So
>> but it's not the fingerprint scanning.
>> No, it's not fingerprint scanning. It's
a it's a physical click but ultimately
you are the one who are in.
>> So somebody have to be there.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> To authorize.
>> Yeah. You're authorize it. So you are
the one who authorizing it. So you are
also doing kind of like hybrid with the
uh frontier model on the cloud together
with this local.
>> Yes, correct. So uh a lot of uh
important things right uh or complex
task it need to go to the frontier model
right. So for the frontier model
we
you connect like we can connect it with
the cloud but at the same time we made
it so easy that like you can connect
with all the different like entropic
open AI and uh different like with API
keys or you can use your chipd
subscription connected to it. So uh
that's how you use the frontier model
also.
>> Can I use my GLM subscription? Of
course. uh we optimize for GLM is one of
those deepseek or anything like all the
basically major player we are connected
to it already.
>> So the advantage is that this little
rock chip chip is actually quite good 26
tops is a lot right it's more than what
the MacBook can do. Well, it is actually
like faster than a Mac Mini. And then uh
also because the reason that we do that
is because a lot of people they're using
a computer that is not as powerful they
and they don't want to buy a new AI
computer and but all the information
that you have is on your regular
computer. So it's very difficult to
migrate. So that's why we take all the
computation outside which give us
another advantage because what happen is
like a lot of people is like AI start if
you install it on there AI start
deleting things or just doing like uh
they they they don't feel safe with that
for this we regarding on the uh physical
security chips uh uh the security button
confirmation we also if worse come to
worse just unplugged it then uh it
doesn't have access because computation
run here. So uh that's the physical
aspect of control that you have over
>> and I guess kind of like the application
that you can run on here you can
customize with the frontier model or you
can develop it you can just make a
better use of this
uh because what is the actual uh
application that you can run here you
know it runs its own
>> oh you run the app here and it's just
using this only for accelerating
>> uh well actually everything run here.
This is just a parent unit or you can of
course you can talk to it, right? So, uh
but all the computation just like run
right here. You can uh in the future we
going to have a community that you can
like add different like function like to
it. So, so the Gemini model uh E4B what
do you call it?
>> Uh it's a Gemma E4B.
>> Gemma Gemma F3 E4B. Um
it's like a a what do you call multiple
experts um kind of like model. Yeah. You
only need 4B performance.
>> Yeah.
>> You could in theory run even more
because you have 26 tabs.
>> Yeah. We we have like uh four different
one. One is to analyze the screen
>> and then another one is for uh
securities, right? And then we've got
another one that is for uh uh basically
planning uh uh orchestrating uh making
the the whole model better. So we got a
bunch of things going on. And then we
got like the uh whisper, we got the
speech model and all those stuff in
there.
>> What if somebody want to try to run a
31B model on here, a bigger model, maybe
a a quantitized version of it? Uh right
now we uh we don't let people to install
it on there like that. Right. So uh but
they can work with their local computer
things model on there. Right. So all
right. So what's the plan? Right. Right
here it says uh reserve for $10. Yeah.
>> Get the founder gift pack and $330
saving. Yep. So, uh, right now we are
going on Kickstarter on, uh, September
15th and, uh, Kickstarter is going to be
$3.99, but if you do it before
Kickstarter, we'll be super early bird,
but so for $10 deposit, you can get it
down to 369 total.
>> 369.
>> So, you can uh, save even more to it.
>> All right, cool. How soon will be
shipping?
>> Uh, we are shipping at the end of
October.
>> Very soon.
>> It's It's very fast, actually. Let me
show you something like uh fun actually.
>> So uh for a specific use case, right?
Because I'm in the uh EVA uh uh uh like
website and then right now I need to
like actually contact different client
of mine to come by to the booth. So it's
right now it is going through the list
and then identify like important client
for me and then uh it is clicking open
because it control my mouse and keyboard
and uh it's going to come up with a
personalized message after understanding
what this person does in their company.
So very soon it should like come up with
>> it's just going to fill out the text
field and click send
>> and yes
>> soon.
>> Let's see. All right here you go. It's
like hey you know you might be find this
interesting. and come by and take a look
and it should click send very soon
for my auto
>> and it doesn't matter about the speed
because it's just going to work for the
whole day the whole night whatever
>> yeah and second thing is like once it
become consistent a skill right then uh
it doesn't actually need that much token
right it sent out already so as you can
see right now it's like 65 of 226 it got
a bunch to go right but then uh is while
I'm talking to you right now it is doing
work for me. So this is and uh we it's
possible to just minimize that part in
the back and then it does it continues
while you do other things on the laptop.
You don't need to keep it open in the
front.
>> Uh depending on the task itself, right?
But then uh yeah for this particular
case it doesn't and another best part is
our mobile app would allow us to just
basically communicate it to it directly.
So you can be on the beach and then it
will still be working for you. See it is
synchronizing.
>> Is there any chance I can buy four or
five and put them together to get a
bigger model?
>> Uh no right now it's like one computer
to each
>> one by one only.
>> Yeah, one by one. And another very
interesting things I'll show you.
>> So what happened is so for example right
because it see it understand what you're
doing for the last like I don't know 2
days 30 minutes or something.
And because you can do that, it can even
understand your screen and give you live
suggestions. Ah,
>> so it's just typing message for you for
example. Oh, you
>> hold on. Hold on.
>> So for example, here I just type and
then uh it just finished the sentence.
>> It finish the sentence. You can just tap
and then it's done. So uh so yeah I mean
like uh and then it will watch your
screen and then slowly remember what you
do and then grow with the memory. So it
become your companion. It will
understand you. Ultimately it'll learn
to talk and uh predict like you. So
there's a lot of technology like
jam-packed in this little device here.
>> The dream is to have a little device
here that does all your work for you and
you can just go on holiday.
>> Yeah. Just need to bring my phone and uh
that's about it. So uh we have this is
the version three we are continual uh
innovating and upgrading. So uh version
three have a little bit too much wire
right but version four on the other hand
it become just one wire so it's more
elegant. So the latest version that
right now everything is
>> this is a USB 4 or a thunderbolt 5 or
the is a using PCIe bus
>> to connect USB 3. Yeah, it's a USB 3. Uh
>> USB 3 is fine.
>> Yeah, USB 3 is fine. Yeah. So, all
right.
>> So, it's just like a regular thing
because Yeah, because we are also
accounted for a lot of like a older
computer,
>> right? So, they need to like get in.
>> Nice.
>> So, I try sometimes to connect to Billy
and Yuku. It's difficult for me to get
the API access. Yeah.
>> And what is the challenge when there's
no API and you can actually control any
website?
>> Yeah. So uh a lot of those they don't
have API. They are legacy software and
uh they're not going to build
>> or they don't want to have API.
>> Yeah. They don't Yeah. They don't want
you to have to access to that. Right. So
what we do is uh we connect through the
mouse and keyboard. It take real control
and then
>> full control of mouse and keyboard and
you take the real display over the full
display
>> because it come from the GPU rendering.
So we can actually see everything,
right? So this way it doesn't need API
and can access like I would say 99% of
the website on the internet have no API
access to it. So this way we are
literally building an official API
directly with the screen
>> with any website you build the API.
>> Yes. And uh compared to software agent
what happen is like uh because they're
simulating the mouse and click input
what happen is uh all the platform need
to do if they don't want you to access
their platform they just need to act to
check are you injection based simulation
and then you'll get locked out you'll
get your capture you need to solve that
puzle get banned. Yeah, but this come
from the real mouse and keyboard input
like a real mouse and keyboard. Just
imagine this is a mouse and keyboard. It
will not be bent. You will not encounter
the capture and all that stuff. So, uh
so uh that's that's that's one of the
advantage of having a external device on
there. Right. Regarding on the on on on
>> can you show some other settings you
have that you just before you were
showing me some setting about the
proactive? What was this? So for
proactive what it does is it will see
your screen because our vision model is
able to see your screen compress it into
structural data right and therefore it's
much smaller it can process locally but
then for proactive function uh one is
the screen right so for example here it
see my screen and then understand what
I'm doing yeah what's awesome let's
because they see my screen
and therefore and just fill up the rest.
>> You can fill up the rest and understand
you see we're talking about when you
come to Barcelona
station
>> and and it's not just you choose that
WhatsApp is allowed to be done that
there's like setting for this.
>> Yeah. So for privacy concern right we
can some people are not comfortable
giving full access to the whole AI
therefore our proactive
>> so you turn on proactive.
>> Yep. Yep. Yep.
>> And then
>> and then I can remember what you work on
and then give you suggestion card. But
here if you don't want to give it full
access I only give it you can only see
my WhatsApp you don't see my telegram no
we chat but then uh you can click on
whatever that you wanted to see so some
information for example like a company
they have a lot of like uh private
information even though it's stored
locally all the data locally doesn't go
to the cloud but you still don't want it
to see and therefore you can turn it off
so this is your another layer of privacy
>> and also is it an advantage of doing it
in a box here because maybe Apple will
block this kind of application on Apple
on Mac.
>> Yes, correct. Uh so there's a lot of
like access you cannot get with software
and uh
>> it's kind of hard to get an app that can
see your screen. Even that you have to
authorize and I don't know what I'm sure
it's really seeing your screen.
>> Uh for a individual app it's impossible
to just monitor all the time because the
only one who have access to monitor all
the time is Apple and they don't do it.
But on the outside we is it is basically
a new monitor and therefore I'm just
monitoring my own monitor and therefore
it can understand it and say it say all
safe locally so uh nothing of your
screen is sent to the cloud.
>> Can we see more of your settings and
what you how you set it up?
>> Uh what more is you can show there?
>> Yep. So for example right uh the AI
model that uh we can we have our own
while loop cloud but at the same time
you can also set up your own like API
keys.
>> How to choose what goes to the frontier
model and what stays local. How do you
choose? So for complex task it's going
to go to the frontier model because
those important for uh for complex task
but for example proactive right it just
need to see your screen autocomplete
give you some suggestions right those
are considered easy task easy task it is
going to go through the local model you
know why because imagine right
autocomplete just like fill out a
sentence if every single thing need to
go to your car it's going to be first
expensive and slow it's not fast
So those we will use our fine-tuned
gemma model and then uh to do it. So
those can just directly because for us
it's not just the privacy it's also the
speed you need to have a good user
experience and here you can just you can
have all these subscriptions.
>> Yes. And for example, I have GLM, I have
Mini Max, I have Gemini, OpenAI.
>> I can just activate them all and say put
25% here, 25% there, and put all my uh
banking stuff on Google because I trust
them. Then don't put it on the Chinese
or
>> we can work on that. Right now is uh
it's just that like you decide which one
to use. But at the same time, right,
because a lot of user they already got a
chdu,
>> they already got a chbd subscription,
right? and therefore they can connect
with the chat GBT if they don't want to
use our cloud service. Of course, we
also provide a subscription service.
>> All right, cool. And it's going to be
available all over the world after
Kickstarter.
>> Yes. So, uh Kickstarter coming on the uh
September 15 and then uh and then uh we
are shipping at the end of uh October.
>> So, it's every shop before Christmas.
>> Oh, yeah. Thanksgiving, Christmas. We're
ready. And you like the idea of uh
having this box help uh like uh an
elderly person maybe I don't know my my
my grand my grandfather or something or
my mom or something it can help them use
the computer. Yes. Uh the goal is
because every single AI agents like
cloth code and all those right it take
times to learn to set it up. If you're
in programming, yeah, fine. That's not a
problem. But then for normal user like
me, I want to just have this plug it in,
talk to it, and tell it what to do.
>> Let's say my grandfather would click
here and say, "Help me send an email to
my grandson."
>> And then Gmail.
>> Yeah, you can open Gmail. It will if it
might even like teach you like, "Hey,
you know what? You don't have to do
anything. I'll open the Gmail for you.
I'll help you do the clicking. I'll do
the sending." just like the showcase
that I said
>> or like uh hey help me do my taxes now
and it's just going to start filling up.
>> It's actually quite funny. I actually
did my taxes with this
when I do my taxes like this.
>> Optimize my taxes.
>> Yeah. I I was like go to my 2000 like
last year folder
>> learn how I build it and I want you to
duplicate that process for 20 like 25.
So that's uh that's literally what I did
for my tax.
>> Click here and say make me some money uh
before Friday or something. It just like
finds an idea.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and uh and
and also right you don't even need to
click right. You can just like hey vio
and then uh it gets voice activated. You
can just talk to it. So you put it on
your computer in a living room your TV
screen and then you literally have a
driver in your house.
>> I want to click and say negotiate for a
cheaper Tesla and it goes on all the
websites and ask for cheaper deal.
>> Where you might find your Elon Mus.
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