Described by testers as lovable, nostalgic, and even what may grow to be “the iPhone of AI,” the Rabbit R1 debuted at CES 2024 as an AI-powered pocket companion that the corporate hopes will grow to be your private AI assistant. Garnering quite a lot of consideration from each spectators and media, the Rabbit R1 launched for pre-orders with a $199 price ticket, and it did not disappoint: The corporate bought 10,000 models in a single day, successfully wiping out its first batch of units.
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“After we began constructing R1, we stated internally that we would be glad if we bought 500 units on launch day,” the company posted on its X (previously Twitter) account yesterday. “In 24 hours, we already beat that by 20x! 10,000 models on day 1!”
The primary batch of pre-orders is deliberate to ship in late March, however potential consumers can nonetheless bounce on the likelihood of snagging an R1 companion. Rabbit introduced {that a} second batch of R1s is now stay on its web site, on the similar pre-order worth of $199, with orders delivery in April or Might.
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The “LAM-powered Tamagotchi,” as Rabbit founder and CEO, Jesse Lyu, described the R1 on X, is a sq. machine roughly half the scale of an iPhone, however promising a extra personalised expertise than the $1,000 smartphone can ship.
Able to answering questions in pure language, the R1 may management the apps in your telephone for you by simply speaking to it with its push-to-talk button like a walkie-talkie. “One thing so intuitive, that you just needn’t discover ways to use it,” Lyu described the machine throughout the keynote. The R1 breaks away from an app-based OS in smartphones and does what we want Siri and Google did for us.
The Rabbit R1 encompasses a rotating digicam, push-to-talk button, analog scroll wheel, 2.88-inch touchscreen, 128GB of inner storage, SIM card slot for information, and USB-C port for charging.