One among the standout gadgets of this 12 months’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the rabbit r1, will use Perplexity AI’s tech to reply user queries, each corporations said in an announcement.
Perplexity noted that the primary 100,000 r1 buyers will get one 12 months of Perplexity Pro totally free.
The $200 r1 made rounds on the CES show as an AI-first gadget that saves you the effort of taking your phone out for tasks like performing web searches, playing a song on Spotify, and ordering a cab. The device doesn’t have a monthly subscription fee for the time being.
The device, designed by Teenage Engineering, has a 2.88-inch touchscreen, a push-to-talk button, a camera, a speaker, and two mics.
The corporate has already sold 50,000 devices in pre-orders. Earlier today, it opened pre-orders for the sixth production batch with one other 50,000 devices. Rabbit said that customers living within the EU and UK will all receive their device by the top of July even when they only pre-order a tool from the sixth batch.
Perplexity uses a mixture of its own AI model in addition to third-party models — Google’s Gemini, Mistra 7B, Anthropic’s Claude 2.1, and OpenAI’s GPT-4 — to get accurate information from the online. The tool has a chatbot interface on the net and mobile apps to let users ask questions in natural language. While Perplexity’s solution is different than traditional search engines like google, it competes with Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Copilot together with You.com within the GenAI search space.
Earlier this month, Perplexity AI raised $73.6 million in investment — at a $520 million valuation — led by IVP with additional investments from NEA, Databricks Ventures, Nvidia, former Twitter VP Elad Gil, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch, and Jeff Bezos.
