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The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’

More than 50,000 R1 preorders have been sold.

CES 2024 darling Rabbit has announced a partnership with Perplexity that will link the “conversational AI-powered answer engine” to the R1, a $199 Teenage Engineering-designed AI gadget that’s already sold through 50,000 preorders. Featuring a 2.88-inch touchscreen, scrolling navigation wheel, and a rotating camera, the R1 is pitched as a pocket-sized universal controller for your various apps, capable of everything from sending messages to selecting songs to making online orders thanks to “Large Action Model” AI. Perplexity AI, meanwhile, combines search with LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to face off with Google, Bing, and all of the other new AI-powered challengers.

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