Rabbit's R1 will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries; the first 100K buyers of the $199 device get one year of Perplexity Pro, worth $200, for free
rabbit r1 is 2024's most exciting launch yet Chris Smith / BGR : Here's another reason to buy a Rabbit r1: Perplexity Pro AI with GPT-4 Jonathan Lamont / MobileSyrup : Rabbit's R1 AI device will use Perplexity to power search Richard Lai / Engadget : The Rabbit R1 will offer up-to-date answers powered by Perplexity's AI Mastodon: Gil Domingo / @hellotycho@mstdn.social : @Techmeme meh. It's a razor to the blade thing here. Perplexity is $20 a month, so I guess that's some sort of value for the first year. X: @perplexity_ai : We're thrilled to announce our partnership with Rabbit: Together, we are introducing real-time, precise answers to Rabbit R1, seamlessly powered by our cutting-edge PPLX online LLM API, free from any knowledge cutoff. Plus, for the first 100,000 Rabbit R1 purchases, we're... [image] Aravind Srinivas / @aravsrinivas : Delighted for Perplexity to enable Rabbit holes! Perplexity's pplx-online LLM APIs, will power Rabbit R1 for providing live up to date answers without any knowledge cutoff! And, the first 100K Rabbit R1 purchases will get 1 year of Perplexity Pro! [image] @rabbit_hmi : In case you were wondering: Today we announced that we will use Perplexity as one of our key LLM services for r1 - and r1 still does not require any subscription to benefit from this partnership. The $200 credit for Perplexity Pro is a standalone bonus kindly offered by... Jesse Lyu / @jessechenglyu : key msg: 1. Perplexity on rabbit r1 is FREE. 2. Perplexity offers free $200 credit as a FREE GIFT to first 100K r1 orders. 3. rabbit r1 REMAINS free of subscription. conclusion: WHAT A DEAL! Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : @jessechenglyu How many did you think you would sell again? Only 500? Congrats! Steve Jobs was bad at this too, he thought no one would want apps on his smartphone. Was forced to do a store and even then the team under expected who actually showed up. Sounds similar, huh? Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg : This is going to be a big hit and will go downstream to mainstream consumers much like the iPhone did. People will see this and want one especially when no subscription is required. https://www.engadget.com/... Alexis Ohanian / @alexisohanian : STRONG! 40,000 units sold in 4 days. It'll be fun to see what people do with it. And should surprise no one that this was designed by @jugendingenieur LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski : Rabbit sure knows how to stay in the news. Not only was its R1 a breakout success last week, the startup has now announced that the $199 device will be powered by Perplexity AI. … Dmitry Shevelenko : From first conversation to a launched partnership in 6 days. Dealmaking in 2024 in AI is something else... …