One of the Gadgets Outside the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) of this year, Rabe R1will use Perplexity Ai Tech to respond to user requests, the two companies said in an advertisement.
Perplexity noted that the first 100,000 R1 buyers will obtain a year of Perplexity Pro for free.
We are delighted to announce our partnership with Rabbit: Together, we introduce precise responses in real time to Rabbit R1, propelled transparently by our LLM online PPLX API, free from all knowledge cut. In addition, for the first 100,000 rabbit purchases R1, we are … pic.twitter.com/hjrehdlhtv
– Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) January 18, 2024
The R1 of $ 200 has toured these shows as a AI-First Gadget which saves you from removing your phone for tasks such as web research, playing a song on Spotify and ordering a taxi. The device has no monthly subscription fees for the moment.
The device, designed by Teenage Engineering, has a 2.88 inch touch screen, a push button, a camera, a speaker and two microphones.
The company has already sold 50,000 pre -order devices. Earlier in the day, he opened pre -orders for the 6th production batch with 50,000 other devices. Rabbit said that customers living in the EU and the United Kingdom will all receive their aircraft at the end of July, even if they pre-order a 6th lot.
The 5th batch of 10,000 Rabbit R1 aircraft sold. Pre -orders in the 6th Lot, totaling 50,000, are now available to https://t.co/r3sotvwoj5
The expected delivery date for the 6th lot is from June to July 2024.
For all the addresses of the EU and the United Kingdom, lots 1 to 6 will be shipped by … pic.twitter.com/d3l8q1zdu6
– Rabbit inc. (@rabbit_hmi) January 19, 2024
Perplexity uses a mixture of its own AI model as well as third -party models – Google Gemini,, Mistra 7bAnthropic Claude 2.1and Openai GPT-4 – For precise information on the web. The tool has a chatbot interface on web and mobile applications to allow users to ask questions in natural language. Although the Perplexity solution is different from that of traditional search engines, it competes with Google Bard and Microsoft’s co -pilot with you.com in the Genai research space.
Earlier this month, Perplexity Ai raised $ 73.6 million in investment – an evaluation of $ 520 million – led by IVP with additional NEA investments, Databricks Ventures, Nvidia, the former vice -president of Twitter Elad Gil, the CEO of Shopify Tobi Lutke, the former CEO From GitHub Nat Friedman, the founder of Vercel Guillermo Rauch and Jeff Bezos.