This is one of the areas the Raspberry Pi ecosystem is not as strong as either Android or random Chinese devices, so it's good to see them doing this.
For example https://wiki.sipeed.com/soft/maixpy/en/develop_kit_board/mai... has been around for years, and is far far better than it should be, although the resolutions supported by the Pi AI camera are way higher.
The west has been very slow to get into the whole edge inference game.