Pour one out for the Rabbit R1. Only 5,000 people of the 100,000 who bought the orange AI gadget are still using it daily, five months after it launched. That’s straight from the mouth of Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, who gave the number to Fast Company while explaining that the device had to launch before it was ready in order to beat big tech companies to the punch.
Rabbit’s do-everything-for-you “large action model” update, which would ostensibly let it log in to websites and do things like order plane tickets or dinner for you when you ask, is apparently coming out on October 1st. Will it inspire people to dust off their Rabbit R1s and carry one more thing in their pockets, just for AI? Given that Apple and Google are both promising local AI that knows what’s on your screen and can do things for you across multiple apps… well, that feels unlikely.
