# What Is the Raspberry Pi AI Kit? And What Replaced It?

DevFeed: [What Is the Raspberry Pi AI Kit? And What Replaced It?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-the-raspberry-pi-ai-kit-and-what-replaced-it-10821.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://raspberrytips.com/what-is-raspberry-pi-ai-kit/>)

Author: Dhairya Parikh

Published: 2026-09-03T01:38:42Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [RaspberryTips](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/raspberrytips.md>)

Topics: [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [Person Detection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/person-detection.md>), [object-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/object-detection.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Generative AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/generative-ai.md>)

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## AI overview

A tutorial explaining what the Raspberry Pi AI Kit was, how it enabled AI and computer vision projects on the Raspberry Pi 5, why it was discontinued, and what replaced it. The article also highlights its affordability, Hailo collaboration, software examples, and current availability.

## Source excerpt

When I first wrote about the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, it was one of the easiest ways to add AI acceleration to a Raspberry Pi 5. Well, things moved fast: Raspberry Pi has since discontinued it and introduced newer options instead. The official Raspberry Pi AI Kit made it much easier to run AI applications...