nah. The pi can run simple models like edge and shape detection but nothing that compute intensive, even with the NPU hat. Things may change with the newer, slimmer models meant to be run locally on cellphones. The NPU hat was a bit of a disappointment to me, TBH, as it is woefully underpowered for the kind of tasks we want to do it now (clearly was designed to accelerate the kind of tasks we were doing with the pi during the pandemic, like face detection, shapes, gesture, and small-model-learning -ie: recognize three or four different words-).
Especifically for the Inku, if it ran somthing like a pi it would not need pairing, and would not have a 30 day battery life. My guess is that it probably runs a low power bluetooth enabled microcontroller (something like a nordic, probably) to save costs, leaving the heavy processing to the cellphone.
