UGREEN’s first AI NAS closed its Kickstarter at $8,748,911 on April 23. Goal was $100K. 3,825 backers, fastest project to $1M on Kickstarter in 2026. Ships May.
What’s in the box
Desktop NAS box, not a subscription. Intel Core Ultra 7, 96 TOPS of on-device AI compute, 64GB LPDDR5X, up to 196TB across the bays. Dual 10GbE, Thunderbolt 4, OCuLink for eGPU expansion, 8K HDMI. Out of the box it runs UIiya, UGREEN’s own local LLM, plus a VLM for image understanding. Every token stays on-device — no cloud roundtrip, no API bill.
The agent-friendly part
UIiya exposes an OpenAI/Ollama-compatible API, which most NAS reviews are burying. Any agent stack you’ve already built — LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, n8n flows — points at the box and works. Backers are wiring it up as a private RAG backend for personal documents, semantic search across years of photos, and natural-language Q&A over Plex libraries. If you wanted a self-hosted agent backend without building a rig with three PSUs, this is the cheapest path.
Why it took off
Kickstarter NAS projects almost never crack $1M. This one did it in under a week. Synology and QNAP have ignored on-device AI, and UGREEN walked into an empty room.
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