The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ is a PCIe expansion board for the Raspberry Pi 5 with either a 13 TOPS Hailo-8L or 26 TOPS Hailo-8 AI accelerator.
You may remember the Raspberry Pi AI Kit was introduced last June with an official M.2 Key M HAT+ and a 13 TOPS Hailo-8L M.2 AI accelerator module, The new Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ is quite similar except the chip is soldered on the expansion board and offered with either Hailo-8L or the more powerful Hailo-8 variant.
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ specifications:
- Supported SBC – Raspberry Pi 5
- AI accelerator
- Hailo-8L AI accelerator with up to 13 TOPS of performance
- Hailo-8 AI accelerator with up to 26 TOPS of performance
- Host Interface – PCIe Gen3 interface
- 16mm stacking GPIO header
- PCIe FPC cable
- Spacers and screws enabling fitting on Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspberry Pi Active Cooler
- Dimensions – 65 x 56.5 mm
- Temperature Range – 0°C to 50°C
From a software point-of-view, the 13 TOPS variant is the same as the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, and all demos such as object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and more can run the same way. The 26 TOPS variant can handle larger networks or run models more quickly. Raspberry Pi told CNX Software a few demos are coming up later in the week to show off the speed of the high-end variant.
The built-in rpicam-apps camera applications in Raspberry Pi OS natively support the AI module and automatically use the NPU to run compatible post-processing tasks. I’m expecting a sample of the AI HAT+ with Hailo-8 NPU, some Raspberry Pi-branded Class A2 microSD cards, and the new 256GB SSD which was announced yesterday. So reviews are coming next month once I’m back home…
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 13 TOPS/26TOPS variants can be purchased now for $70 and $110 respectively (before taxes and shipping) from your favorite Raspberry Pi reseller. Availability is guaranteed until at least January 2030. Additional information may be found on the product page.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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26 TOPS for $110 seems to be a good value but I’ll wait to see demos, too bad I abandoned Pi devices after the 3b so I have no later berry variants.
A measured response. I want the time of my life back when I had to debug the Pi 3b hardware instability caused by using OpenGL and Ethernet at the same time.