Raspberry Pi Targets Edge AI, Companions with Hailo for the Raspberry Pi AI Package

Raspberry Pi has introduced a partnership with on-device machine studying and edge synthetic intelligence specialist Hailo to launch a brand new bundle focusing on these seeking to experiment with energy-efficient AI: the Raspberry Pi AI Package.

“Our collaboration with Hailo permits Raspberry Pi’s industrial clients to combine AI into high-performance options which can be extraordinarily cost-effective and power-efficient,” claims Raspberry Pi co-founder and chief govt officer Eben Upton of the partnership. “For lovers, the AI Package offers an accessible approach to improve their inventive tasks with AI. Hailo’s mixture of excessive compute energy and low energy consumption make it an extremely engaging AI resolution for professionals and lovers alike.”

“We’re thrilled to assist Raspberry Pi and empower its vibrant group {of professional} engineers and inventive makers with cutting-edge AI capabilities,” provides Hailo co-founder and chief govt officer Orr Danon. “Our partnership with the world’s main single-board pc supplier will encourage a brand new period of computing, enhanced by our high-performance AI processing capability.”

The package pairs a Raspberry Pi 5, the latest and strongest mannequin within the in style single-board pc household, with a Hailo-8L M.2 accelerator able to delivering 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of minimum-precision compute for machine studying and synthetic intelligence workloads. The 2 units are mated utilizing the newly-launched Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+, which gives a PCI Categorical M.2 slot suitable with the accelerator and connects over the Raspberry Pi 5’s single externally-accessible PCIe Gen. 2 lane.

The partnership is not solely a few {hardware} bundle, although: Hailo can be launching a brand new “on-line developer group” that’s set to incorporate tutorials, collaboration options, and different sources for registered customers — in addition to the corporate’s present software program suite and mannequin zoo, which incorporates assist for the Raspberry Pi Digital camera Module household.

“Our new on-line group will function a collaborative setting for AI lovers to share their experiences and talk about new methods to innovate,” Danon claims. “We totally count on the introduction of Raspberry Pi’s AI-enabled board to set forth a brand new path for innovation – and we look ahead to collaborating with makers to assist them as they experiment and leverage Hailo’s AI capabilities.”

The brand new Raspberry Pi AI Package is not the corporate’s first foray into the world of machine studying. Earlier this yr attendees at Embedded World 2024 have been handled to a teaser of the Raspberry Pi AI Digital camera, a Digital camera Module variant designed across the Sony IMX500 with on-board pc imaginative and prescient accelerator; this adopted Sony’s April 2023 funding in Raspberry Pi, quickly to be a publicly-listed firm, and its promise to combine the AITRIOS edge AI platform into future merchandise.

The Raspberry Pi AI Package is about to be demonstrated at Embedded World China June Twelfth-14th on the Raspberry Pi sales space, 3A-138, and at Maker Faire Hannover August Seventeenth-18th; the package is now accessible to order from approved Raspberry Pi resellers, priced at $70.