Raspberry Pi has introduced an replace to its newest Debian 13 “Trixie”-based Raspberry Pi OS, which provides previously-missing assist for the corporate’s on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) accelerator merchandise — each the Raspberry Pi AI Equipment and Raspberry Pi AI HAT+.
“The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ and the Raspberry Pi AI Equipment, each based mostly on Hailo AI accelerators, are actually totally supported on the lately launched Trixie model of Raspberry Pi OS,” Raspberry Pi software program engineering supervisor Naush Patuck explains of the brand new updates. “All of the required software program packages can be found and able to set up from our apt repo.”
Raspberry Pi has launched updates for its Debian Trixie-based Raspberry Pi OS to reintroduce assist for its Hailo-based ML/AI accelerators. (📷: Raspberry Pi)
The brand new assist covers each the Raspberry Pi AI Equipment, launched again in June 2024, and the newer Raspberry Pi AI HAT+, which got here out in October that 12 months — each earlier than the discharge of the newest Raspberry Pi OS, which was first made publicly obtainable in July 2025. Whereas the Debian 13 “Trixie”-based working system introduced a variety of enhancements, it left these experimenting with the AI Equipment and AI HAT+ behind — till now.
The updates, obtainable right this moment, now present full compatibility with each the units with out having to remain behind on a now-unsupported model of Raspberry Pi OS — whether or not you are utilizing the Hailo-8L variant, which delivers 13 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of INT8-precision compute, or the extra highly effective Hailo-8 that hits 26 TOPS on the similar precision.
“This bundle launch does include one vital change,” Patuck notes. “We now have eliminated the Hailo machine driver from our kernel builds and are actually utilizing DKMS to construct and set up the kernel driver as a part of the bundle set up. This decoupling not solely allows extra flexibility with software program releases going ahead, but in addition permits our customers to downgrade the machine driver with out downgrading the kernel itself.”
The corporate has additionally launched an replace for the Raspberry Pi AI Digicam, to make debugging customized networks simpler. (📷: Gareth Halfacree)
The updates come shortly after Hailo made its new software infrastructure framework obtainable, making it simpler to develop customized functions accelerated by the chips — whether or not on a Raspberry Pi or one other Hailo-equipped machine. Patuck has additionally confirmed a brand new characteristic for the Raspberry Pi AI Digicam, which may run small pc imaginative and prescient fashions on-sensor: an enter tensor injector that gives simpler debugging of customized neural networks working on the Sony IMX500 “Clever Imaginative and prescient Sensor.”
Raspberry Pi OS customers with a Raspberry Pi AI Equipment or Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ can set up the brand new software program with the command sudo apt replace && sudo apt set up dkms && sudo apt set up hailo-all, and can discover the brand new Hailo framework on GitHub; the brand new enter tensor injector for the Raspberry Pi AI Digicam is put in mechanically with a sudo apt replace && sudo apt full-upgrade -y.
