Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date

That sounds like a privacy nightmare, but Rabbit Inc. claims it doesn’t store any user credentials of third-party services. Also, all of the authentication happens on the third-party service’s login systems, and you’re free to unlink Rabbit OS’s access at any time and delete any stored data. In the same vein, since the R1 uses a push-to-talk button—like a walkie-talkie—to trigger the voice command prompt, there’s no wake word, so the R1 doesn’t have to constantly listen to you the way most popular voice assistants do. The microphone on the device only activates and records audio when you hit that button.

The backend uses a combination of large language models to understand your intent (powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT) and large action models developed by Rabbit Inc., which will carry out your requests. These LAMs learn by demonstration—they observe how a human performs a task via a mobile, desktop, or cloud interface, and then replicate that task on their own. The company has trained up several actions for the most popular apps, and Rabbit’s capabilities will grow over time.

We’re all used to talking to our devices by now, asking voice assistants like Siri or Google Assistant to send a text or turn up the Daft Punk. But Rabbit does things differently. In the company’s press materials, it notes that Rabbit OS is made to handle not just tasks but “errands,” which are by nature more complex and require real-time interactions to take place. Some examples the company offers are researching travel itineraries and booking the best option for your schedule and budget, or adding items to a virtual grocery store cart and then completing all the necessary steps to check out and pay.

Arguably the most interesting feature of LAMs in the R1 is an experimental “teach mode,” which will arrive via an update at a later date. Simply point the R1’s camera at your desktop screen or phone and perform a task you’d want the R1 to learn—Lyu’s example was removing a watermark in Adobe Photoshop. (Hooray, stealing copyrighted images!) You’re essentially training your own “rabbits” to learn how you do niche tasks you’d rather automate. Once your rabbits learn the task, you can then press the button and ask your R1 to do something you alone have taught it.