An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more
THE SO WHAT
Skepticism about AI hype from a major edge vendor paired with rising demand for AI-capable boards is a tell—pragmatic, cheap inference at the edge is where real volume will land. If you’re building AI-native products, assume constrained, local hardware as the default environment, not cloud GPUs.
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