Raspberry Pi continues its new releases with the AI HAT+

The Raspberry Pi team has been busy announcing new products and changes, with the latest being an expansion of its AI product line with the new Raspberry Pi AI HAT+.

The news was shared through an article on the website on Thursday (October 24) which states the expansion follows “the successful launch of the Raspberry Pi AI Kit and AI Camera.”

The AI HAT+ will include the same Hailo AI accelerator technology as the already released AI Kit, but it will include the choice of two performance options.

There will be the 13 TOPS (tera-operations per second) model which will be priced at $70 and will have the same Hailo-8L accelerator as the AI Kit. Then, there will be the more powerful 26 TOPS model which comes equipped with the Hailo-8 accelerator and is priced at $110.

The difference between the two models is that the more powerful one will allow users to run more sophisticated neural networks in real-time, achieving better inference performance.

“The 26 TOPS model also allows you to run multiple networks simultaneously at high frame rates. For instance, you can perform object detection, pose estimation, and subject segmentation simultaneously on a live camera feed using the 26 TOPS AI HAT+:” writes Naushir Patuck in the announcement.

Both versions of the AI HAT+ will be fully backward compatible with the AI Kit. Patuck says the addition will be able to handle demanding AI workloads more efficiently as the Hailo accelerator will be directly integrated into the main PCB.

“After an exciting few months of AI product releases, we now offer an extensive range of options for running inferencing workloads on Raspberry Pi.

“Many such workloads – particularly those that are sparse, quantized, or intermittent – run natively on Raspberry Pi platforms; for more demanding workloads, we aim to be the best possible embedded host for accelerator hardware such as our AI Camera and today’s new Raspberry Pi AI HAT+. We are eager to discover what you make with it”

This also comes just a day after the team debuted a new branded range of NVMe SSDs, with the processors available both on their own and bundled with the M.2 HAT+ as ready-to-use SSD Kits.

Featured Image: Via Raspberry Pi article – Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with up to 26 TOPS

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