Santa Monica-based startup Rabbit has announced a new rabbit r-1 AI assistant at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024) in Las Vegas. The R1 is an AI-driven device equipped with a 2.88-inch touchscreen display and operates on a MediaTek processor. The AI assistant possesses the capability to perform various functions, including playing music, placing grocery orders, and sending messages.
Explaining the idea behind Rabbit R-1, rabbit founder and CEO Jesse Lyu said, “We’ve come to a point where we have hundreds of apps on our smartphones with complicated UX designs that don’t talk to each other. As a result, end users are frustrated with their devices and are often getting lost. rabbit is now building towards an intuitive app-free experience with the power of AI.”
“Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, showed the possibility of understanding natural language with AI; our Large Action Model takes it one step further: it doesn’t just generate text in response to human input – it generates actions on behalf of users to help us get things done.”
As mentioned earlier, the Rabbit R1 features a 2.88-inch touchscreen and is run on the company’s proprietary rabbit OS. Interestingly, unlike much of AI based offerings which are based on large language models (LLM) like OpenAI’s GPT or Google’s Gemini, the Rabbit R1 instead is based on a ‘Large Action Model’ and has the ability to gauge users’ intention and behaviour while using specific apps and mimicking those actions ‘reliably and quickly’, Rabbit claims.
How to pre-order Rabbit R1?
The Rabbit R1 is priced at $199 and is available to pre-order from the company’s official website: rabbit.tech. The company is planning to start shipping the smart devices by late March. Rabbit has announced that it has sold out its 2 batches of 10,000 rabbit r1 devices and the third batch is now available to pre-order from its website which are expected to be delivered around May to June 2024.
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Published: 12 Jan 2024, 12:58 PM IST