NPU

Why This Project The Hailo-10H is the NPU Hailo sells for running LLMs on a Raspberry Pi 5 (and other SBCs). Unlike its vision-oriented cousins, this one is built from the silicon up for exactly that: 8GB of LPDDR4 on board! At first, I tested my chip with hailo-ollama, Hailo’s homegrown “Ollama-like” tool that drives their precompiled models. I had fun for about two minutes, and then got bored fast. The models on offer are slow, and worse, locked to one very specific list: ...

🎯 Why This Project? At first, I thought the Hailo‑8L was some kind of magic chip — the kind where you could run LLMs, use it as a backend device for frameworks like Tensorflow, train models on it, all of it. Spoiler: absolutely not. Digging in a bit, I understood that the Hailo‑8L is built exclusively for inference, not training, and definitely not [Reinforcement Learning] or any kind of LLM business. ...