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Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ – Raspberry Pi Ltd

Overview

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ is an add-on board with a built-in Hailo AI accelerator for

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 HAT+ is available in 13 and 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) variants,

built around the Hailo-8L and Hailo-8 neural network inference accelerators. The 13

TOPS variant capably runs neural networks for applications including object detection,

semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and more. The 26 TOPS variant

can handle larger networks, can run them more quickly, and can more effectively run

multiple networks simultaneously.

The AI HAT+ communicates using Raspberry Pi 5’s PCIe Gen 3 interface. When the host

Raspberry Pi 5 is running an up-to-date Raspberry Pi OS image, it automatically detects

the on-board Hailo accelerator 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.