CES 2024 darling Rabbit has introduced a partnership with Perplexity that can hyperlink the “conversational AI-powered reply engine” to the R1, a $199 Teenage Engineering-designed AI gadget that’s already bought via 50,000 preorders. Not like LLMs that may solely reference knowledge as much as a sure date previously, what they’re pitching for the R1 is a built-in search engine with “dwell updated solutions with none information cutoff.”
In line with Perplexity co-founder Aravind Srinivas, who introduced the deal in a dwell Areas broadcast with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, the primary 100,000 Rabbit R1 purchases may also include one 12 months of its Perplexity Professional subscription. The plan consists of entry to newer LLMs like GPT-4 and usually prices $20 per 30 days.
In a submit on X, Rabbit stated that Perplexity will work behind the scenes on its gadget “together with different main LLMs” which can be thus far unnamed, all with no subscription.
That includes a 2.88-inch touchscreen, scrolling navigation wheel, and a rotating digital camera, the R1 is pitched as a pocket-sized common controller on your varied apps, able to every thing from sending messages to deciding on songs to creating on-line orders due to “Giant Motion Mannequin” AI.
Perplexity AI, in the meantime, combines search with LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to face off with Google, Bing, and all the different new AI-powered challengers.