IN BRIEF: Raspberry Pi launches AI HAT+ 2 for on-device generative AI
Raspberry Pi Holdings PLC - Cambridge, England-based maker of personal-use computers and modules - Launches AI HAT+ 2 add-on board for Raspberry Pi 5, broadening the company's product portfolio to support on-device generative artificial intelligence. The new add-on board is an update of HAT+, which was launched in October 2024. While HAT+ used the Hailo-8 neural network accelerator, HAT+ 2 is based on Hailo-10H and includes 8 gigabytes of dedicated on-board dynamic random access memory. This enables "access to larger models and efficient acceleration of large language models, vision language models, and other generative AI applications on Raspberry Pi 5," the company explains, adding: "With few, if any, existing solutions at a comparable price point for generative AI at the edge, the AI HAT+ 2 opens new revenue opportunities across security, premises management, process control, and a wide range of applications where on-device processing addresses cost, data privacy, or resilience requirements." Read More