Even the Raspberry Pi is getting involved in AI now

As the AI ​​craze continues, microcomputer company Raspberry Pi also plans to sell an AI chip. It integrates with the Raspberry Pi’s camera software and can seamlessly run AI-based applications such as chatbots on the tiny computer.

Raspberry Pi has partnered with chipmaker Halo for its AI Kit, an add-on for the Pi. Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer Which will run Halo’s Halo-8L M.2 accelerator. The kits will be available “soon from a worldwide network of Raspberry Pi-approved resellers” for $70.

Or Danon, CEO and co-founder of Helo, said Verge that its accelerator has “power consumption of less than 2W and is passively cooled.” The accelerator delivers 13 tera operations per second (TOPS), which is less than chips planned for AI laptops such as Intel’s 40 Tops Lunar Lake Processor.

Most AI applications run on the cloud because they often require massive amounts of energy and computing power to work. However, there have been moves toward creating smaller AI models and processors that require less power to bring AI to portable devices. This way, laptops and phones can run coding assistants or AI-powered photo editing applications without making API calls.