HONG KONG, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Eternal Group is delighted to announce its inaugural partnership with Cosmoprof Asia, the foremost beauty exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region, serving as the esteemed event partner for this year's fragrance initiatives. During the CosmoTalks fragrance session on November 15, 2024, Eternal Group proudly unveiled the 2024 Hong Kong and Macau Perfume and Home Fragrance White Paper, meticulously developed in collaboration with the International Fragrance Association. This year's exhibition, themed "SCENT HORIZONS: Unveiling the Future of Fragrance," profoundly emphasized the integral role of fragrances within the Asian market. Over the span of three days, Eternal Group orchestrated a captivating program that encompassed seven distinguished events across four diverse activity types, including enlightening seminars, immersive fragrance masterclasses, hands-on workshops, and a striking LED wall presentation of the white paper. The exceptional turnout of nearly 2,000 attendees, who enthusiastically engaged in these activities and explored the booth, underscores the significant impact and relevance of perfumes and home fragrances in today's industry landscape.
About <2024 Hong Kong and Macau Perfume and Home Fragrance White Paper>
Eternal Group was established in the 1980s in Hong Kong S.A.R.. It is a leading Omni-channel Brand Management of Beauty & Eyewear company in China. With its intuitive sense of marketing tactics and groundbreaking business strategies, Eternal has over 40 years leading the trend and lifestyle in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and China, with an international vision. With our diversified brand portfolio, Eternal is continuously motivated to strengthen our advantages in total brand solutions in both online and offline operations. As a luxury brand management and distribution enterprise, Eternal Group established the International Fragrance Association in 2024, dedicated to advancing the fragrance industry through various activities. The newly <2024 Hong Kong and Macau Perfume and Home Fragrance White Paper> aims to equip industry stakeholders with insights into consumer needs, facilitating the development of sustainable business models.
The <2024 Hong Kong and Macau Perfume and Home Fragrance White Paper> is a continuation of the <2024 China Perfume and Fragrance White Paper>, which has been published annually since 2020. This initiative allows industry professionals to gain deeper insights into consumer behaviors and preferences regarding perfumes and fragrances.
In 2024, Eternal Group collaborated with COSMART, a member platform under South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, to conduct a survey assessing consumer behaviors and preferences in fragrance usage. This survey ensures the white paper accurately reflects the market dynamics in Hong Kong and Macau, reinforcing Eternal Group's position as a leader in the fragrance sector.
The Fragrance Market in Hong Kong and Macau Matures: Over 90% Have Purchased Perfume The survey collected data from 1,063 interviewees regarding their fragrance habits, preferences, and market trends.
Key findings include:
- Over 90% Have Purchased Perfume: 91.56% of interviewees using perfume.
- Over 80% Use More Than One Perfume Daily: 60.46% choose their perfume based on mood, occasion, or season; 21.57% use one for daily wear and another for special occasions; 17.97% usually use only one fragrance.
- Nearly 50% Prefer Floral Scents: 48.19% of interviewees prefer floral scents, followed by woody (21%), fruity (14.95%), and citrus (11.21%).
- Close to 40% Use Social Media for Fragrance Information for insights about perfumes.
- Over 30% Prefer Buying Perfume in Bran Physical Stores and 20% shop in online shopping platforms.
- Over 70% Use Home Fragrances.
- Over 90% Are Open to Trying Niche Brands: More than 90% of interviewees expressed willingness to try niche perfume and fragrance products.
The survey not only illuminates market trends but also identifies potential marketing opportunities in the Hong Kong and Macau fragrance markets. Highlights in the below:
- With increased societal awareness of environmental issues, consumers are becoming more concerned about product ingredients and their impact on the environment, leading to a rising demand for natural and organic fragrance products. Brands can launch products that meet sustainability standards, such as using renewable resources, avoiding animal testing, and offering recyclable packaging.
- In response to consumers' diverse needs for perfumes and fragrance products, brands can develop more comprehensive product lines or introduce limited-edition, seasonal products, and collaborations with well-known artists for exclusive collections.
- Brands can effectively reach consumers through digital transformation and online sales, allowing for precise targeting of customer segments and personalized selling based on shopping habits and preferences.
However, the fragrance market in Hong Kong and Macau also faces challenges. In a competitive landscape, brands must continuously innovate to maintain consumer loyalty and adapt to evolving shopping preferences, fostering sustainable growth.
Download the Full Survey:
<2024 Hong Kong and Macau Perfume and Home Fragrance White Paper:
http://www.eternal.hk/EternalGroup/WhitePaper/2024_HK-Macau_WhitePaper.pdf
<2024 China Perfume and Fragrance White Paper>:
http://www.eternal.hk/EternalGroup/WhitePaper/2024_China_WhitePaper.pdf
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fVFflvbFmPAr8wJDbHweSSHENwhUtK1O
ABOUT ETERNAL GROUP
Eternal Group was established in the 1980s in Hong Kong S.A.R.. It is a leading Omni-channel Brand Management of Beauty & Eyewear organization in China. With its intuitive sense of marketing tactics and ground-breaking business strategies, Eternal has flourished over 40 years leading the trend and lifestyle in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and China, with an international vision. With our diversified brand portfolio, Eternal is continuously motivated to strengthen our advantages in total brand solutions in both online and offline operations. As a luxury brand management and distribution enterprise, we aim to build a better and sustainable business as well as to drive for excellence. To fulfil customer's need and aspirations, we develop our own brands of beauty and optical products to bring new insight to the market.
About International Fragrance Association
Established in 2024, the International Fragrance Association, founded by the Eternal Group, is dedicated to enriching the art and culture of fragrances. It aims to cultivate a deeper understanding and appreciation among the public for the intricate relationship between scents and art, history, and innovation. Through the influential force of fragrances, the foundation strives to promote inclusivity and unity within the diverse cultural tapestry. Embracing its role as a trailblazer and advocate, the foundation seeks to ignite societal transformation and harmony, transcending cultural barriers with a fervent embrace of the world of fragrances.
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Eternal Group Unveiled the at Cosmoprof Asia 2024
Pocket-size device supports up to 120B models locally with 0 token fees, without requiring cloud or high-end GPU
DOVER, Del., March 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tiiny AI Inc. (www.tiiny.ai), a U.S. AI Infra startup, today announced that its Tiiny AI Pocket Lab surpassed US$1 million in Kickstarter pledges within five hours of its March 11 launch.
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab is a pocket-size personal AI supercomputer that plugs into a laptop or PC and turns it into a local AI terminal. Built as a dedicated backend for always-on AI, it is designed to support up to 120B-parameter models locally without requiring internet, cloud services, separate servers, or a high-end GPU. It also offers one-click deployment, 0 token fees, and an always-on operating profile within a 65W power envelope.
The milestone signals early demand for what Tiiny AI calls "AgentBox" — a new class of dedicated local devices designed to run always-on AI models and agent workflows privately and persistently, including OpenClaw-based agents. It also reflects a broader shift from cloud-based AI toward edge-cloud synergy, where routine agent tasks run locally for privacy, reliability, and greater cost control, while the cloud is used selectively when needed.
In the first five hours, the campaign reached US$1,009,664 in pledges from 728 backers. The backer base was led by the United States (about 70% of backers, by backer count), followed by Germany and Canada, with additional backers from the United Kingdom and Spain, as of 3:00 pm EDT on March 11.
"We are in a broader shift from cloud-based AI to edge-cloud synergy, with a new hardware layer emerging: agent-native devices built to run always-on workflows locally," said Samar Bhoj, GTM Director at Tiiny AI. "Our focus is to make that experience accessible with one-click deployment, local-first operation, 0 token fees, stronger privacy controls, and a practical edge-cloud synergy model that uses the cloud only when needed."
Pricing and Availability
- Kickstarter campaign page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiinyai/tiiny-ai-pocket-lab
- Kickstarter super early-bird price: US$1,399
- Website-only deposit program: Tiiny AI offers a US$9.90 deposit on its website to lock in a US$1,299 price (US$100 lower than the super early-bird price).
- Estimated delivery: August 2026 (final schedule and regional availability detailed on Kickstarter)
AgentBox: A New Category Built for Always-On AI Workflows
As AI adoption accelerates, cloud-based AI is encountering friction for many everyday workflows: recurring usage costs, privacy and data-sovereignty concerns, reliability risks from network or cloud outages, and long-context capabilities. At the same time, agent frameworks are pushing AI beyond chat and into multi-step workflows, such as organizing files, building local knowledge bases, generating reports, and executing tasks over time.
Against this backdrop, Tiiny AI sees the emergence of "AgentBox" — a new class of compact local AI devices designed to support always-on agent workflows. Tiiny AI Pocket Lab is built to support up to 120B-parameter models locally, while offering privacy, reliability, and greater control as a persistent local AI engine that works alongside users' existing devices.
This "AgentBox" is powered by Tiiny AI's proprietary optimization technologies, including TurboSparse and PowerInfer, designed to improve throughput and efficiency for local inference on compact hardware.
The company offers a ready-to-use open-source ecosystem. Tiiny AI Pocket Lab supports one-click installation of more than 50 leading open-source models including OpenAI GPT-OSS, Llama, Qwen, GLM, Mistral, and Phi, and enables seamless deployment of over 100 popular open-source AI agents such as OpenClaw, OpenCode, Flowise, Presenton, Libra, Bella, and SillyTavern. Users receive continuous updates, including official OTA hardware upgrades.
To further strengthen ecosystem openness, Tiiny AI said the product will also support user-imported .gguf models from Hugging Face beyond the officially adapted mainstream models. The company plans to launch a corresponding model conversion tool in July 2026. SOTA open-source LLMs will receive priority support from Tiiny AI, while longer-tail models can be converted and imported by users based on their own needs. This is intended to make the product not only a local AI device, but also a more controllable local AI runtime environment with greater transparency and user oversight.
Built for Local-First Security and Control
As AI agents become more capable and more autonomous, security concerns are expanding beyond the model itself into broader areas such as permission management, behavior auditing, and execution control.
In response, Tiiny AI emphasizes three design principles: local-first operation, least privilege, and human-in-the-loop control. The company says sensitive workflows should remain locally processed whenever possible; agent access to tools, files, and APIs should be limited to only what is necessary for a given task; and human confirmation or audit mechanisms should remain in place for actions involving sensitive data, external systems, or critical operations.
According to Tiiny AI, this is part of what distinguishes AgentBox from a generic local AI setup and cloud-based AI: it is meant to provide a more transparent and controllable environment for running AI continuously in everyday workflows.
In December 2025, Tiiny AI Pocket Lab was verified by Guinness World Records under the category "The Smallest MiniPC (100B LLM Locally)", recognizing its form factor and ability to run a 100B-parameter LLM locally.
Formed in 2024, the team brings together global engineers from MIT, Stanford, HKUST, SJTU, Intel, and Meta, with deep expertise in systems engineering, AI inference optimization, and hardware–software co-design. Their research has been published in premier academic conferences including SOSP, OSDI, ASPLOS, and EuroSys. In 2025, Tiiny AI secured a multi-million dollar seed round from leading global investors.
Headline specs (configuration dependent):
- Memory: 80GB LPDDR5X
- Storage: 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
- Performance: ~18–40 tokens/second (config dependent)
- Power: 30W TDP (65W adapter required); designed within a 65W power envelope
- Dimensions/weight: 142 × 80 × 22 mm; 300g
- Compatibility: macOS & Windows
(Note: performance figures are configuration dependent; Tiiny AI can provide test conditions upon request.)
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About Tiiny AI Inc.
Tiiny AI Inc. is a U.S. AI Infra startup. The company's mission is to make advanced AI personal, private, and accessible, bringing powerful model and agent workflows to local devices with simplified deployment and predictable costs. With its founding team formed in 2024 by engineers from MIT, Stanford, HKUST, SJTU, Intel, and Meta, the company develops breakthrough technologies such as TurboSparse and PowerInfer that enable up-to-120B LLMs to run on pocket-sized consumer devices for the first time. Tiiny AI's mission is to make advanced AI accessible, private, and personal.
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AgentBox Emerges as Tiiny AI Pocket Lab Hits $1M in 5 Hours on Kickstarter, a Shift from Cloud AI to Edge-Cloud Synergy
