GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) Launches the Next Generation of Card Grading -- Bridging Art, Design, and Collectible Culture

• WORLD'S FIRST INSTANT NFC-ENABLED AUTHENTICATION IN A GRADED SLAB
• REDEFINING COLLECTIBLE ART WITH LIMITED, UNIQUE, UV-PRINTED
  ARTIST-DESIGNED SLABS 
• LEADING TURNAROUND TIMES FOR COLLECTORS ACROSS ASIA

HONG KONG, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong-founded GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) announces today a new frontier in card grading and authentication. Built on the belief that grading can be more than technical, GEA introduces a new collector experience where precision, innovation, and design come together—reframing the slab not only as protection, but as part of the collectible itself.

 

 

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The Next Generation of Card Grading

Launching from Hong Kong—one of Asia's most influential cultural and creative hubs—GEA is built to serve both dedicated collectors and new audiences entering the rapidly growing world of trading cards. With a concept never-before-seen in the card grading category, refined presentation, modern security, reliable expertise, and a streamlined service journey, GEA aims to deliver a grading experience as premium as the collectibles it protects.

On top of offering exclusive, rare artist-designed slabs for recognized top-tier submissions, each card submitted to GEA will be encased in a designed slab, expanding the value of the collectible. New collectors will be able to experience a stress-free card grading process with a team of experts working on a market-leading turnaround time—from submission to shipping. 

Transforming Every Card Into Collectible Art

Redefining card grading, slabs will take a new look at GEA. Traditionally transparent with a simple information label on top, every card graded through GEA will be encased in a trait- or character-specific designed slab, such as a PIKACHU card with an electric trait-designed slab. Each design is created with the series in mind, incorporating elements that work to spotlight the encased card, while becoming a new form of collectible art. Current card series include POKÉMON Trading Card Game, ONE PIECE Card Game, DISNEY LORCANA Trading Card Game and HOW2WORK Collectible Card Game.

Instant Verification with NFC & Cryptographic Security

GEA slabs are embedded with NFC technology, enabling instant, secure verification with a tap of a smartphone. Each slab is paired with a cryptographic authentication mechanism designed to strengthen provenance and trust—giving collectors quick access to key certification details with confidence.

Leading Turnaround Times for Collectors Across Asia

With operations based in Hong Kong, GEA delivers a more efficient grading experience for collectors across the region—reducing wait times while maintaining a premium standard of inspection and encapsulation. The service model is designed to provide a faster path from submission to slab, without compromising quality. 

Introducing PRISTINE 11

GEA also announces PRISTINE 11, a new top-tier designation that goes beyond the market's conventional GRADE 10 by recognizing cards that achieve an exceptional, near-flawless standard across all four grading areas: centering, corners, edges, and surface. Cards awarded the PRISTINE 11 distinction will be presented in an exclusive translucent slab to signify its status.

Submissions Now Open

Now accepting submissions, collectors can submit cards through GEA's official channels to receive their first artist-designed slab. Submissions are currently open at the GEA office by appointment, while authorized partners CARD HOBBY, GENTRY CLUB, HOBBYX, and MTG MINT CARD will begin accepting submissions soon, with launch dates to be announced through GEA's official channels.

Following launch, collectors can look forward to additional artist collaborations already in development. With plans to expand locally and regionally, GEA aims to lead a new category of collectible experience—one that deepens the connection between art, culture, and community through the future of grading.

NFC-Enabled – Instant Secure Verification

Artistic Design – Crafted for Showcase

Expedited Service – Market-Leading Turnaround

UV-Resistant – All-Round Protection

Optimized Size – Efficient Compact Storage

Authorized Dealers / Submission Center:

GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA)
1102-1105, 11/F, Block A, 83 King Lam Street, Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong

Card Hobby
No. 43 Gough Street, Central, Hong Kong

Gentry Club
8/F, K11 MUSEA, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

HobbyX
Unit 02, 20/F, President Commercial Centre, 608 Nathan Road, Mong Kok, Hong Kong

HobbyX Plus
304, 3/F, K11 Art Mall, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

MTG Mint Card
Flat B, 9/F, Heep Kee Commercial Bldg, 205-211 Wing Lok St, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

• WORLD'S FIRST INSTANT NFC-ENABLED AUTHENTICATION IN A GRADED SLAB
• REDEFINING COLLECTIBLE ART WITH LIMITED, UNIQUE, UV-PRINTED
  ARTIST-DESIGNED SLABS 
• LEADING TURNAROUND TIMES FOR COLLECTORS ACROSS ASIA

HONG KONG, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong-founded GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) announces today a new frontier in card grading and authentication. Built on the belief that grading can be more than technical, GEA introduces a new collector experience where precision, innovation, and design come together—reframing the slab not only as protection, but as part of the collectible itself.

 

 

More images can be found HERE

The Next Generation of Card Grading

Launching from Hong Kong—one of Asia's most influential cultural and creative hubs—GEA is built to serve both dedicated collectors and new audiences entering the rapidly growing world of trading cards. With a concept never-before-seen in the card grading category, refined presentation, modern security, reliable expertise, and a streamlined service journey, GEA aims to deliver a grading experience as premium as the collectibles it protects.

On top of offering exclusive, rare artist-designed slabs for recognized top-tier submissions, each card submitted to GEA will be encased in a designed slab, expanding the value of the collectible. New collectors will be able to experience a stress-free card grading process with a team of experts working on a market-leading turnaround time—from submission to shipping. 

Transforming Every Card Into Collectible Art

Redefining card grading, slabs will take a new look at GEA. Traditionally transparent with a simple information label on top, every card graded through GEA will be encased in a trait- or character-specific designed slab, such as a PIKACHU card with an electric trait-designed slab. Each design is created with the series in mind, incorporating elements that work to spotlight the encased card, while becoming a new form of collectible art. Current card series include POKÉMON Trading Card Game, ONE PIECE Card Game, DISNEY LORCANA Trading Card Game and HOW2WORK Collectible Card Game.

Instant Verification with NFC & Cryptographic Security

GEA slabs are embedded with NFC technology, enabling instant, secure verification with a tap of a smartphone. Each slab is paired with a cryptographic authentication mechanism designed to strengthen provenance and trust—giving collectors quick access to key certification details with confidence.

Leading Turnaround Times for Collectors Across Asia

With operations based in Hong Kong, GEA delivers a more efficient grading experience for collectors across the region—reducing wait times while maintaining a premium standard of inspection and encapsulation. The service model is designed to provide a faster path from submission to slab, without compromising quality. 

Introducing PRISTINE 11

GEA also announces PRISTINE 11, a new top-tier designation that goes beyond the market's conventional GRADE 10 by recognizing cards that achieve an exceptional, near-flawless standard across all four grading areas: centering, corners, edges, and surface. Cards awarded the PRISTINE 11 distinction will be presented in an exclusive translucent slab to signify its status.

Submissions Now Open

Now accepting submissions, collectors can submit cards through GEA's official channels to receive their first artist-designed slab. Submissions are currently open at the GEA office by appointment, while authorized partners CARD HOBBY, GENTRY CLUB, HOBBYX, and MTG MINT CARD will begin accepting submissions soon, with launch dates to be announced through GEA's official channels.

Following launch, collectors can look forward to additional artist collaborations already in development. With plans to expand locally and regionally, GEA aims to lead a new category of collectible experience—one that deepens the connection between art, culture, and community through the future of grading.

NFC-Enabled – Instant Secure Verification

Artistic Design – Crafted for Showcase

Expedited Service – Market-Leading Turnaround

UV-Resistant – All-Round Protection

Optimized Size – Efficient Compact Storage

Authorized Dealers / Submission Center:

GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA)
1102-1105, 11/F, Block A, 83 King Lam Street, Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong

Card Hobby
No. 43 Gough Street, Central, Hong Kong

Gentry Club
8/F, K11 MUSEA, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

HobbyX
Unit 02, 20/F, President Commercial Centre, 608 Nathan Road, Mong Kok, Hong Kong

HobbyX Plus
304, 3/F, K11 Art Mall, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

MTG Mint Card
Flat B, 9/F, Heep Kee Commercial Bldg, 205-211 Wing Lok St, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

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GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) Launches the Next Generation of Card Grading -- Bridging Art, Design, and Collectible Culture

GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) Launches the Next Generation of Card Grading -- Bridging Art, Design, and Collectible Culture

GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) Launches the Next Generation of Card Grading -- Bridging Art, Design, and Collectible Culture

GRADING ELEVEN AUTHENTICATION (GEA) Launches the Next Generation of Card Grading -- Bridging Art, Design, and Collectible Culture

HONG KONG, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tiiny AI Inc. (www.tiiny.ai), a US deep-tech AI startup, today unveiled the world's smallest personal AI supercomputer, the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, officially verified by Guinness World Records under the category "The Smallest MiniPC (100B LLM Locally)." 

The event marked the first global public unveiling of the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab. For the first time in AI supercomputing, a pocket-sized device is capable of running up-to a full 120-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) entirely on-device — without cloud connectivity, servers, or high-end GPUs.

Designed for energy-efficient personal intelligence, Tiiny AI Pocket Lab runs within a 65W power envelope. It 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." 

"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 centers, 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.

Crucially, Tiiny AI Pocket Lab operates in the 'golden zone' of personal AI (10B–100B parameters), which satisfies over 80% of real-world needs. Going further, it supports models scaling up to 120B LLM, delivering intelligence levels comparable to GPT-4o. This enables PhD-level reasoning, multi-step analysis, and deep contextual understanding — but with the security of fully offline, on-device processing.

The announcement comes as the global LLM market is entering a period of rapid expansion. According to Grand View Research, the global LLM market size was estimated at USD 7.4 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 35.4 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 36.9% from 2025 to 2030. It is driven by advances in self-supervised learning, domain-specific model development, and rising enterprise adoption across sectors including retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and media.

Tiiny AI Pocket Lab is powered by two core technology breakthroughs that make large-parameter models viable on a compact device. TurboSparse, a neuron-level sparse activation technique, significantly improves inference efficiency while maintaining full model intelligence. PowerInfer, an open-source heterogeneous inference engine with more than 8,000 GitHub stars, accelerates heavy LLM workloads dynamically distributing computation across CPU and NPU, enabling sever-grade performance at a fraction of traditional power consumption. Together, these technologies allow Tiiny AI Pocket Lab to deliver capabilities that previously required professional GPUs costing thousands of dollars.

Key Specifications:

Processor	ARMv9.2 12-core CPU
AI Compute Power	Custom heterogeneous module (SoC + dNPU), delivering ≈190 TOPS
Memory & Storage	80GB LPDDR5X + 1TB SSD
Model Capacity	Runs up to 120B-parameter LLMs fully on-device
Power Efficiency	30W TDP, 65W typical system power
Dimensions & Weight	14.2 × 8 × 2.53 cm, approx. 300g, pocket-sized
Ecosystem	One-click deployment of dozens of open-source LLMs and agent frameworks
Connectivity	Works fully offline; no internet or cloud required

Processor

ARMv9.2 12-core CPU

AI Compute Power

Custom heterogeneous module (SoC + dNPU), delivering
≈190 TOPS

Memory & Storage

80GB LPDDR5X + 1TB SSD

Model Capacity

Runs up to 120B-parameter LLMs fully on-device

Power Efficiency

30W TDP, 65W typical system power

Dimensions & Weight

14.2 × 8 × 2.53 cm, approx. 300g, pocket-sized

Ecosystem

One-click deployment of dozens of open-source LLMs and
agent frameworks

Connectivity

Works fully offline; no internet or cloud required

The company also offers a ready-to-use open-source ecosystem. Tiiny AI Pocket Lab supports one-click installation of leading open-source models including OpenAI GPT-OSS, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, and Phi, and enables seamless deployment of popular open-source AI agents such as OpenManus, ComfyUI, Flowise, Presenton, Libra, Bella, and SillyTavern. Users receive continuous updates, including official OTA hardware upgrades. The above features will be released at CES in January 2026.

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.

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About Tiiny AI Inc.

Tiiny AI Inc. is a US deep-tech AI startup pioneering personal AI supercomputing. It brings cloud-grade large-model intelligence fully on-device, private, offline, and accessible to everyone. 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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Tiiny AI Reveals World's Smallest Personal AI Supercomputer, Verified by Guinness World Records