It’s possible you’ll bear in mind the rabbit R1 from final 12 months. It was the hand-held, orange, AI gadget that you just work together with by utilizing your voice. The R1 failed to actually make an impression regardless of having a groundbreaking interactive voice interface, as a result of it actually didn’t do a lot that your smartphone couldn’t already do.
Nonetheless, as a result of its comparatively low worth of $199 and a devoted following amongst a gaggle of customers who like to tinker, it discovered its area of interest and has been in energetic improvement ever since.
Now, rabbit has simply launched a complete new working system, the rabbitOS 2, that contains a colourful new card-based design and vibe-coding agentic AI capabilities. So, when you’re already an R1 proprietor, you’re about to get an enormous replace.
You continue to discuss to the gadget to make use of it, however while you press the button and discuss to R1, the stream of the dialog is now seen on the display. New multimodal performance has additionally been added to the dialog, so you should use voice, textual content, and pictures collectively in the identical question.
“Our imaginative and prescient after we launched R1 was to construct a model new expertise the place you’ll be able to simply discuss to AI and it’ll perceive you and do issues for you. After launch, we realized there was an enormous hole between the excessive expectations of our customers and the unique software program expertise we delivered. So we determined to utterly revamp the software program and redesign your complete R1 expertise,” stated rabbit founder and CEO Jesse Lyu.
“rabbitOS 2 transforms rabbit R1 right into a platform for folks to create their very own experiences with the facility of AI. With rabbitOS 2, creations, and greater than 30 OTAs over the previous 16 months, R1 is a totally new gadget.”
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The brand new card-based design makes it simpler to see and entry the R1’s options with further gesture capabilities added to the contact display. rabbitOS 2 relies on the acquainted idea of a deck of taking part in playing cards with every foremost function getting its personal card within the stack, so you’ll be able to simply browser and entry them by swiping on the display or utilizing the scroll wheel.
It sounds a bit like flipping via a Rolodex, and it addresses one of many main issues I discovered when utilizing the gadget – that I felt a bit misplaced with solely my voice to regulate it – so I’m trying ahead to giving the brand new OS a spin.
The opposite foremost function of the brand new rabbitOS 2 is creations, an agentic AI improvement that you just vibe code. You’ll be able to truly construct software program instruments, video games and different experiences in your gadget via real-time conversations. The creation will seem in your gadget simply minutes after you end describing it.
You don’t want any technical capacity to vibe code a brand new creation. You can also make your individual or select from a rising listing of present creations to put in in your R1 totally free.
So, whereas there is no such thing as a new {hardware} to accompany the brand new OS, rabbit has stated it’ll provide free international delivery on all new R1 orders till the top of September taken via the rabbit web site.
