Official Raspberry Pi AI Kit M.2 HAT+ Hailo-8L (13 TOPS)

The Official Raspberry Pi AI Kit pairs the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ with a Hailo-8L neural processing module, giving a Raspberry Pi 5 dedicated on-device AI acceleration rated at 13 TOPS. The Hailo module plugs into the HAT+'s M.2 slot and talks to the Pi 5 over its native PCIe 2.0 interface, so once installed the board is recognised automatically by current Raspberry Pi OS builds without manual driver setup.

Camera-based AI apps in Raspberry Pi OS pick up the Neural Processing Unit directly, making this a practical upgrade path for object detection, pose estimation, and other vision workloads that would otherwise bog down the Pi's CPU. The kit ships with the stacking header, spacers, screws, and a pre-fitted thermal pad needed for a clean install.

• 13 TOPS Hailo-8L neural accelerator
• Connects via M.2 HAT+ to Pi 5 PCIe 2.0
• Auto-detected by Raspberry Pi OS camera stack
• Includes stacking header, spacers, screws, thermal pad
• Operating range 0-50°C

Well suited for Indian makers building smart-camera robotics or classroom AI demos that need real-time inference without a cloud connection.

Country of origin: China