A new hardware start-up called WiCi has unveiled the WiCi One, a wireless GPU that shares a dedicated Nvidia graphics card with laptops, phones and other devices over Wi-Fi 7. For photographers and video editors working on thin-and-light machines, the promise is desktop-class timeline playback, grading, rendering and local AI generation without a tower PC, a Thunderbolt eGPU enclosure or cloud rendering credits.

WiCi is backed by headphone maker Shokz and is part of the Nvidia Inception programme for start-ups. It was co-founded by Zili Meng, an assistant professor at HKUST whose networking research is used in Tencent Cloud Gaming, and Kaiqiang “Andy” Xu, previously CTO of Vincross, the company behind the HEXA robot.

How it works

The base WiCi One is built around an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM, with an RTX 5090 option with 32GB also planned. The GPU is delivered to your device over Wi-Fi 7 using WiCi’s own AirLink transport, and there are three ways to use it.

Driver mode presents the WiCi One as a virtual local GPU on macOS, Windows and Linux, so applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Blender can use it without plugins or changes to your workflow. SDK mode offers Python, JavaScript and Swift libraries for developers, while API mode provides an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for AI tools.

The unit also includes 4TB of NVMe 5 storage, which WiCi uses with a weight-paging system it calls TurboStream to run AI models that are far larger than the GPU’s VRAM. WiCi says it’s compatible with Ollama, Hugging Face, ComfyUI, Blender and Premiere Pro.

Claimed performance

According to WiCi’s own benchmarks on a production unit over Wi-Fi 7, the RTX 5060 Ti version runs Google’s Gemma 4 26B model at 140 tokens per second, and the RTX 5090 version exceeds 500 tokens per second. These are the company’s figures and we haven’t been able to verify them.

Our take

The idea of shared, cable-free GPU power is an interesting one, particularly given the interest we’ve seen in AI mini PCs for local image and video work. The big question is how well it performs over a real-world home or studio network, where latency and interference can be very different from a controlled test. It’s a device we’d like to put through its paces with a proper editing workload.

WiCi One specifications

WiCi One price and availability

Early-access pricing for the RTX 5060 Ti configuration starts at $1,999, down from $2,599. Pricing for the RTX 5090 version will be announced closer to launch, and shipping is expected to begin in Q4 2026. UK pricing has not been confirmed. Early access sign-up is on the WiCi website.