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But 12 months have passed.
Where is the Rabbit R1 now?
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Well with a relentless pipeline of updates and novel AI ideas…its actually pretty good now!?
Its not the breakthrough unit that CEO and Founder Jesse Lyu promised on-stage all those months ago.
So lets go through what your day-to-day experience could be like now.
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LAM is a cool diamond in the rough
Lets deal with the big thing first.
I dont have the confidence to put login information into this or make it add items to cart/buy things.
Oh, and special shoutout to Teach Mode.
Its time to dive into the things that Ill call just Rabbit things.
First is Magic Camera.
Asking it to make me look like an 8-bit sprite produced some highly stylized results.
Next, Generative UI.
and creates a look and feel that is completely unique to you.
Finally, and most recently, Rabbit and ElevenLabs have teamed up to bring custom voices on R1.
Finally, the gamification of it all via r-cade.
But damnit, its addictive.
My baseball hat Rabbit says hi by the way.
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Then the realization hit me.
The Rabbit R1 is fun.
you’ve got the option to customize your own with entirely unique results.
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And most importantly, the LAM Playground is a slow but fascinating insight into agentic AI.
The (re)verdict
Rabbit R1 got a deserved bad rap the first time around.
12 months later, things are different.
We have a Rabbit R1 that is sort of finished and not broken anymore.
So allow me to give a new verdict for the new year.
Yes, there are other AI devices that are more helpful, more accurate and more advanced than this.
However, Ive got to be real.
Neither of my above recommendations allow you to have as much joy with AI as the Rabbit R1 does.
They see AI as a tool, R1 makes AI fun and I love that.
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Not to say it isnt useful.
But the big moments where this starts to make sense is when you have fun with it.
Altering the entire UI to look like a bunch of Windows 95 program screens.
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Giving my Rabbit a baseball helmet.
Using image generation to turn myself into a Nintendo 8-bit sprite.
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