{"id":19072,"date":"2024-01-10T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/19072\/this-199-ai-companion-is\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:02:09","slug":"this-199-ai-companion-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=19072","title":{"rendered":"This $199 AI companion is called the Rabbit R1 and it\u2019s much more than a Tamagotchi on the juice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This $199 AI companion is called the Rabbit R1 and it\u2019s much more than a Tamagotchi on the juice\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>January 10, 2024. If you&#39;ve been keeping tabs on the news in (under)New York and this particular Brooklyn synagogue, you&#39;re probably experiencing some thrills right now.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s keep things separate, and instead of \u201crabbit tunnels,\u201d let\u2019s talk about \u201crabbit tunnels.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>In the rabbit tunnel there is an AI to find<\/h2>\n<p>Even though every year the specifications or features of certain phones impress us, they don&#39;t seem to make us lose our minds.  Many people say that the phone industry has stagnated and that a major breakthrough, whether in hardware or software, is needed to generate widespread public attention and affection for handsets.  A lot of this audience is comfortably stuck with mid-sized products that do the job &#8220;very well&#8221;&#8230; or are simply buying flagship products they&#39;re unfamiliar with. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nothing<\/span> by the way, other than \u201cit\u2019s cool and expensive\u201d.  So the need for something new is real.  Foldables, high-end cameras or AI: this is what phone manufacturers are obsessed with lately.  The last one is probably the most important of all, given that Samsung is bragging 24\/7 about the Galaxy S24&#39;s alleged AI capabilities and even Bloomberg&#39;s Mark Gurman had to criticize Apple for its delay in both on the South Korean giant and on <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/google\/\"   title=\"Google\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Google<\/a>.  and the Pixel 8 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/series\/\"   title=\"series\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">series<\/a> in this area.  A young dreamer named Jesse Lyu goes further and also wants to give you the AI \u200b\u200bticket to ride\u2026minus the smartphone experience. <\/p>\n<h2>Enter the R1 Rabbit<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/9\/24030667\/rabbit-r1-ai-action-model-price-release-date\" class=\"external\">The edge<\/a> tells the story of Jesse Lyu, CEO and founder of a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rabbit.tech\/\" class=\"external\">AI startup called Rabbit<\/a>.  This company is behind the $199 autonomous AI gadget called R1.<\/p>\n<p>You can call it a Tamagotchi on steroids or a Nintendo on diet pills, but it&#39;s so much more: it has a 2.88-inch touchscreen, a rotating <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/camera\/\"   title=\"camera\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">camera<\/a>, a scroll wheel and with a push button on the side.  .  With AI!<\/p>\n<p>Inside, there&#39;s a 2.3GHz MediaTek processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a battery that the manufacturers say lasts &#8220;all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-fcda24b7-6abf-4d0d-a156-56ea9862bce9\" class=\"single-image-container full-width-element\">\n<div class=\"gallery-item\">\n<picture style=\"padding-top: 66.666666666667%\"><source media=\"(max-width: 350px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 351px) and (max-width: 500px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/This-199-AI-companion-is-called-the-Rabbit-R1-and.jpg\" alt=\"This $199 AI Companion Is Called the Rabbit R1 and It&#39;s Much More Than a Tamagotchi on Juice\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>What tricks can the Rabbit R1 do?<\/h2>\n<p>As the report says, the real deal is in the R1&#39;s software: it has its own operating system, called Rabbit OS.  Instead of the LLM (large language model \u2013 ChatGPT-like), the company claims that AI capabilities derive from a \u201clarge action model\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote quote-auto nolinks\" style=\"width: 85.0%\">\n<p>The Large-Scale Action Model, or LAM, was trained by humans interacting with apps like Spotify and Uber, essentially showing the model how they work.  The LAM learned what a Settings icon looked like, how to know when a command has been confirmed, and where the search menus are.  All of this, Lyu says, can be applied to any application anywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So the Rabbit R1 could potentially be used for many different things, like controlling your music, ordering a car, doing your shopping, sending your messages, searching for maps, making reservations, and much more, &#8220;all via a single interface\u201d and give these are voice commands.<\/p>\n<p>And, as CEO Jesse Lyu says, the Rabbit R1 is a \u201ccompanion\u201d computer, built with the idea of \u200b\u200bintuitive human-machine interaction at its heart.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s see what the future holds for this unique bunny!\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This $199 AI companion is called the Rabbit R1 and it\u2019s much more than a Tamagotchi on the juice\u060c January 10, 2024. If you&#39;ve been keeping tabs on the news in (under)New York and this particular Brooklyn synagogue, you&#39;re probably experiencing some thrills right now. Let\u2019s keep things separate, and instead of \u201crabbit tunnels,\u201d let\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4991,2912,8861,8992,8993],"class_list":["post-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-called","tag-companion","tag-juice","tag-rabbit","tag-tamagotchi"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19074,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions\/19074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}