1,400 yuan palm-sized AI hardware sold out 10,000 units on the first day! Lu Cheng returns: He wants to destroy all apps
As expected, there is indeedAI hardwareExplosion field CES 2024!
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The name of this AI handheld machine isRabbit R1vowing to kill App applications (There is no need for an app for that).
The pre-sale price is US$199 (approximately 1,425 yuan). The specific appearance is as follows:
It is understood that Rabbit announced that R1 will not start shipping until March. However, the news came out thatIn less than 24 hours, this guy quickly sold 10,000 units.
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Regardless of the price, popularity of the first batch, or ease of use (no subscription required), R1 seems to have a slight advantage over another AI hardware that hit the screen some time ago – AI Pin.
It’s no wonder that Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of Rabbit, publicly stated that his product may have hope of beating the AI Pin (manual dog head) in the market.
Netizens also expressed their personal opinions on the two AI hardware, which was very lively:
However, it is understood that although R1 has functions such as video calling and SIM card slot, “R1 is not intended to replace smartphones.”
What’s even more eye-catching is that R1 has a built-in “new AI-based system” developed by Rabbit.RabbitOS.
In this regard, the company stated:
The hope is that the R1 will become an intermediary between the user and their smartphone, whether it's an iPhone or another device. Hope to use AI to change the way users interact with applications.
Another special point is that the founder behind this company is Chinese Jesse Lyu, the former founder of Raven Company.
To be honest, my curiosity has been aroused. What is so different about this AI handheld console?
Let’s see together——
What are the highlights of Rabbit R1?
The R1 is bright orange all over, weighs about 115 grams, and has a 2.88-inch touch display on the front.
On the upper right side of the screen is an AI camera that can rotate 360°.
Below the camera is an operation wheel, with round buttons on the side. The scroll wheel is used for selection and navigation, while the button is a shortcut key to wake up the voice assistant with one click.
According to reports, R1 is also equipped with a microphone and speakers, which can be said to be complete despite its small size.
After understanding its appearance, let’s take a lookbuilt-inincluding a 2.3GHz MediaTek processor, 4GB of memory and 128GB of storage space, and supports Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Officials claim that the R1’s battery life is “all day”
Here comes the most important part! ——R1 is equipped with something you have never seen beforeBrand new operating system, Rabbit OS.
Rabbit OS uses underlying AI technology, but it does not use large language model technology like ChatGPT, but is based on “large action model(Large Action Model, LAM)”.
The large action model is derived from the large language model, but puts more emphasis on “behavior”. From the actual display, the functions that the large action model and the large language model can achieve seem to be similar. Users can also use natural language to talk to R1 through the large action model.
After hearing instructions given by humans in natural language, Rabbit OS can understand people's complex intentions and then help people operate the App to complete tasks.
and,Just ask with your mouthyou don’t have to worry about choosing which app to use.
For example, if you press the side button, you can wake up the dialogue system in 500 milliseconds, “Ask any questions you want to ask”, and then get a voice answer, and it is the kind equipped with subtitles:
The networking function of R1 was also demonstrated by querying the stock price of Coca-Cola Company:
Use it to snap up ingredients in your refrigerator and have it serve up a low-calorie recipe.
R1 thought for a while and said, “Why don't we have some green garden omelette rice.”
Official introduction, R1Compatible with all existing applicationsusers do not need to discard any existing data.
After hearing this, you must also understand why R1’s vision is to subvert App.
Isn’t this just trying to use an AI operating system to replace the current manual touch interaction between users and mobile apps?
However, the founder and CEO of Rabbit said that R1 does not expect to replace smartphones. From his speech, we can see the current positioning of R1:
It’s a beautiful accessory and the all-in-one device of the future.
Rabbit and its founder Jesse Lyu
In fact, before the product was unveiled, Rabbit was already well-known in the technology and venture capital circles.
There are three reasons, namelyInvestment and financing status, technology presentation and founder background.
Firstat the end of last year, the company announced that it had received three rounds of financing within two months.
Investors include Vinod Khosla, the “global technology investment king” (also the first venture investor in OpenAI), and South Korean Internet giant Kakao.
The total financing amount in 3 rounds is US$30 million.
secondalso last year, Rabbit released a thing called Quantum Engine.
Using Quantum Engine, users can upload scripts, and then AI will generate the plot in real time, allowing users to choose characters and interact freely with NPCs – and voice is the specific way for users to interact with AI in real time.
Netizens used it to play characters in “The Matrix” and “The Legend of Zhen Huan”, and the effect was very good, and they quickly became popular.
The third point is that Jesse Lyu, the founder behind Rabbit, is a Chinese serial entrepreneur in the AI field.
Lu Chenggraduated from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool, UK, majoring in financial mathematics.
In his junior year, he founded the social tool Timeet, which aims to find common free time by matching schedules to initiate and organize activities.
In 2014, Lu Cheng graduated from university and foundedRaven Technology.
The main products include Flow, a software that can use voice to access mobile applications, Project Flow, an interactive system combined with AI, MusicFlow, a music player made using the “listen to music” module in Flow, as well as Raven speakers and Raven H-1 and other hardware.
△Raven speaker
February 2017,Baidu announces full acquisition of RavenLu Cheng and his team were hired by Baidu, and he became the general manager of Baidu smart home hardware.
More than a year later, in June 2018, Lu Cheng resigned from Baidu.
After leaving Baidu, Lu Cheng came to the United States and started his own business again, establishing an AI-centered company.Cyber Manufacture Co.which is the predecessor of today’s Rabbit.
One More Thing
Coincidentally, on the same day, another company making AI hardware jumped out, and it wasOpen source version.
Bart Trzynadlowski, Apple’s former AR prototype designer, expressed his passion on Twitter, shouting, “Don’t let others productize your life!”
The company has launched a completely open source project that providesOpen source modelandAffordable wearable hardwaredevelopers can use these two things to make their own AI hardware.
And it can be in any shape, such as necklaces, pins, etc., and can also be adapted to other hardware such as Apple Watch.
It is reported that more news about this open source version of AI hardware, including the GitHub repository, will be released next week~
