OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI 5 AI KIT

The Raspberry Pi AI Kit bundles the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT with a Hailo 8L AI accelerator to offer customers access to excellent inferencing performance on the Raspberry Pi 5. It provides an accessible, cost-effective, and power-efficient way to integrate high-performance AI. Explore applications including process control, security, home automation, and robotics.

The AI module is a 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS) neural network inference accelerator built around the Hailo-8L chip. The module uses the M.2 2242 form factor, and comes pre-installed in the M.2 HAT , to which it connects through an M key edge connector. The M.2 HAT communicates between the AI module’s M.2 interface and the Raspberry Pi 5’s PCIe 2.0 interface.

When the host Raspberry Pi 5 is running an up-to-date Raspberry Pi OS image, it automatically detects the Hailo module and makes the NPU available for AI computing tasks. The built-in rpicam-apps camera applications in Raspberry Pi OS natively support the AI module, automatically using the NPU to run compatible post-processing tasks.

FEATURES

• Hailo 8L accelerator with up to 13 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second) inferencing performance.
• Conforms to the HAT specification.
• Supplied pre-assembled on a Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT so ready to use with a Raspberry Pi 5.
• Fully integrated into Raspberry Pi’s camera software stack.
• Thermal pad pre-fitted between module and HAT spreads heat across components, improving performance
• Supplied with 16mm stacking header, spacers, and screws to enable fitting on Raspberry Pi 5 with Active Cooler in place

KIT INCLUSIONS

• Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT
• Hailo AI module  containing a Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
• Thermal pad pre-fitted between the module and the M.2 HAT
• Mounting hardware kit
• 16mm stacking GPIO header