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One of the standout gadgets of this year ’s Consumer Electronics Show ( CES),the coney r1 , will usePerplexity AI’stech to do user enquiry , both companies enounce in an announcement .
Perplexity mention that the first 100,000 r1 buyers will get one year of Perplexity Pro for costless .
We ’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Rabbit : Together , we are introducing veridical - time , precise answers to Rabbit R1 , seamlessly powered by our cutting - bound PPLX online LLM API , spare from any knowledge cutoff . Plus , for the first 100,000 Rabbit R1 purchases , we’re … pic.twitter.com / hJRehDlhtv
— Perplexity ( @perplexity_ai)January 18 , 2024
The $ 200 r1 made rounds at the CES show as an AI - first gadget that saves you the scuffle of taking your phone out for task like performing WWW hunting , play a song on Spotify , and ordering a taxi . The twist does n’t have a monthly subscription fee at the moment .
The machine , design by Teenage Engineering , has a 2.88 - inch touch screen , a pushing - to - talk release , a television camera , a speaker , and two mics .
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The company has already sell 50,000 devices in pre - Order . Earlier today , it open up pre - orders for the 6th yield batch with another 50,000 gadget . Rabbit say that client experience in the EU and UK will all receive their machine by the end of July even if they just pre - prescribe a machine from the 6th batch .
The fifth great deal of 10,000 lapin r1 gadget has trade out . Pre - order for the 6th plenty , totaling 50,000 , are useable now athttps://t.co/R3sOtVWoJ5
require delivery appointment for the sixth peck is June – July 2024 .
For all addresses in the EU and UK , batch 1 - 6 will be ship by…pic.twitter.com/D3l8q1Zdu6
— rabbit inc . ( @rabbit_hmi)January 19 , 2024
Perplexity uses a mix of its own AI model as well as third - company manakin — Google’sGemini , Mistra 7B , Anthropic’sClaude 2.1 , and OpenAI’sGPT-4 — to get precise information from the World Wide Web . The tool has a chatbot user interface on the web and roving apps to get users ask questions in rude language . While Perplexity ’s result is different than traditional search engines , it contend with Google ’s Bard and Microsoft ’s co-pilot along with You.com in the GenAI hunt space .
Earlier this month , Perplexity AI raised $ 73.6 million in investment — at a $ 520 million valuation — led by IVP with additional investment from NEA , Databricks Ventures , Nvidia , former Twitter VP Elad Gil , Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke , ex - GitHub chief operating officer Nat Friedman , Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch , and Jeff Bezos .
