At CES2024, the much-anticipated darling Rabbit announced that it wouldPerplexityThe company is partnering with its "conversational AI-driven answer engine" to pair it with a $199 Teenage Engineering-designedR1Connected. R1 has already sold 50,000 orders in the market, becoming the darling of the field of artificial intelligence gadgets.
Perplexity co-founder Aravind Srinivas announced the strategic partnership with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu in a Spaces livestream. Srinivas said that users who purchase the first 100,000 Rabbit R1s will receive a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro, which includes access to GPT-4 and otherup to dateLLM Program, valued at $20 per month.
Unlike other LLMs that can only reference data prior to a certain date in the past, Rabbit is marketing the R1 as having a built-in search engine that can “re-use data in real time.”up to dateanswers without any knowledge interruption". This feature makes R1 more practical in user experience.
Equipped with a 2.88-inch touchscreen, scrolling navigation wheel and rotating camera, the R1 is positioned as a pocket-sized universal controller for a variety of applications. Its "Big Actions" function allows users to perform various actions from sending messages to selecting songs to ordering online, showcasing advanced artificial intelligence technology.
Perplexity AI combines search with OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and other LLMs to compete with AI rivals such as Google and Bing. This collaboration will provide users with a smarter and more efficient search and information acquisition experience, pushing Rabbit R1 to the forefront of the AI gadget market.