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Can a striking design set rabbit’s r1 pocket AI apart from a gaggle of virtual assistants?
In a sea of AI-enabled gadgets at CES, the rabbit r1 (all lowercase, they insist) stands out not just for its high-vis paint job and unique form factor,
What rabbit has designed is more along the lines of the “agent” type AIs we’ve seen appear over the last year, machine learning models that are trained on ordinary user interfaces like websites and apps. The company trained its own “large action model” or LAM on countless screenshots and video of common apps, and as a result when you tell it to play an older Bob Dylan album on Spotify, it doesn’t get lost halfway. Clearly the crew at rabbit thinks that popping this small (3″x3″x0.5″) and light (115 grams) gadget up and saying what you want, then using the scroll wheel and button to navigate the results is a simpler experience than using the app in many cases.
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