How to Run AI Models on Raspberry Pi Locally

Nov. 23, 2024

The AI craze is such that the Raspberry Pi Foundation released a newAI Hat+ add-onrecently. That said, you don’t need dedicated hardware to run AI models on Raspberry Pi locally. You can run small language models on your Raspberry Pi board using the CPU. The token generation is definitely slow, but there are small million-parameter models that run decently well. On that note, let’s go ahead and learn how to run AI models on Raspberry Pi.

Requirements

So this is how you can run AI models on Raspberry Pi locally. I love Ollama because it’s straightforward to use. There are other frameworks like Llama.cpp, but the installation process is a bit of a hassle. With just two Ollama commands, you can start using an LLM on your Raspberry Pi.

Anyway, that is all from us. Recently, Iused my Raspberry Pi to make a wireless Android Auto dongle, so if you are interested in such cool projects, go through our guide. And if you have any questions, let us know in the comments below.

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