Compiling an LLM on a Hailo 10H, a Bottomless Shithole
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: ...