Raspberry Pi’s New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Raspberry Pi’s new AI HAT adds 8GB of RAM for local LLMsJan 15, 2026Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM.With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi’s CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in addition to the equivalent 26 TOPS INT4 machine vision performance on the earlier AI HAT with Hailo 8.In practice, it’s not as amazing as it sounds.You still can’t upgrade the RAM on the Pi, but at least this way if you do have a need for an AI coprocessor, you don’t have to eat up the Pi’s memory to run things on it.And it’s a lot cheaper and more compact than running an eGPU on a Pi. In that sense, it’s more…
