The tiny computers are offered at an affordable price of tens of dollars per unit and they have gained great popularity and to date the company has sold 61 million units of the product on its various models to both professional developers and hobbyists. The company founded a social fund that provides students in formal and non-formal education with many resources that help them build digital solutions, experiment with the most advanced technologies and develop original technologies that realize their creativity.
The Raspberry Pi AI Kit is designed for the Raspberry Pi 5 and includes the recently announced M.2 HAT+ as well as the Hailo-8L M.2 AI Acceleration Module with an inference performance of 13 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS). This solution fully integrates with the Raspberry Pi’s camera software and supports a wide variety of applications through the extensive Halo software package.
Or Danon, CEO and co-founder of Hailo: “We are happy to collaborate with Raspberry Pi in order to enrich the capabilities of the community of engineers, makers and amateur developers through advanced AI capabilities of their kind. Our collaboration with the world’s largest manufacturer of single-board computers will provide inspiration for a new era of computing whose boundaries will be expanded through high-performance capabilities in artificial intelligence processing.”
Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi: “Our collaboration with Hilo will allow our customers in the industry to integrate AI into high-performance solutions that are highly effective in terms of cost/benefit and power consumption. The collaboration will allow amateur creators to enrich their creative projects with AI. Hilo offers a combination of high processing capabilities and low power consumption that is extremely attractive for AI solutions of professionals as well as amateurs.”
The performance of the Hailo-8L model AI accelerator, which has a processing rate of 13 tera operations per second, is significantly higher than all the competitors’ end processors. In light of the fact that the Hilo processors are commercially marketed and comply with industrial standards – and have already been implemented by 300 customers worldwide – this is an ideal product for growth from prototype to mass production.
Hailo’s collaboration with Raspberry Pi is an important landmark for Hailo that demonstrates the maturity of the company’s AI accelerators and its ability to serve a large audience of customers and users. Hailo is launching an online platform to support the company’s growing developer community and Raspberry Pi user community. The platform will offer a user forum, video tutorials, answers to common questions and other resources that will foster innovation among developers and creators. Registered members of the community will be able to have a dialogue with the team of Hilo experts and with other members of the community, share code, experiences, resources, knowledge and more.
Or Danon concluded: “Our new online community will serve as a collaborative environment for artificial intelligence experts and enthusiasts to share their experiences and discuss new ways to innovate. The new Raspberry Pi tiny computer equipped with AI capabilities will pave a path of innovation. We look forward to seeing how developers and developers can leverage the capabilities The AI of Hilo”.
The Raspberry Pi AI kit will be on display at the Raspberry Pi booth at Embedded World China on June 12-14 and Maker Faire Hannover on August 17-18.
Hailo was established in February 2017 by graduates of the Elite Technological Unit of the Intelligence Corps. The company, which became a unicorn two and a half years ago, announced in early April that it had raised $120 million and launched its high-performance GenAI accelerators from the Hailo-10 model that herald a new era in which users can own and run GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) applications locally on their devices without the need to register for cloud-based services of creative artificial intelligence. In total, Hailu has raised 340 million dollars since its inception.
Hilo has offices in the USA, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, and a network of distributors throughout Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Europe and its products serve more than 300 customers worldwide. The company currently employs over 250 people in Tel Aviv and abroad, and is recruiting additional employees to support the accelerated growth. The Hilo processors are the product of rethinking the usual computing architecture and they allow smart devices to perform sophisticated deep learning tasks such as real-time object recognition, while minimizing the power consumption, size and cost of the chip. The processors are intended to be integrated into many types of smart machines and smart devices in a variety of sectors, including automotive, security, computing, industry 4.0 and retail.