What I think is amazing about this news is that 5000 use it every day ?? For what ?

I got one as a gift - been trying to sell it unsuccessfully for months now…

That's 5k more than I've expected

If they had actually built an Ai model that could interact with the UI of any application by looking at the underlying UI components, the product might have been super cool.

That they didn't do this is rather unfortunate, because it should in theory be quite possible. Heck given recent advances in small parameter models, it might even be possible to run locally with some custom HW.

A voice only interface capable of running any android app would be pretty cool. I doubt Google will ever release that (I'd love to be proved wrong) if simply because it risks destroying the display ads market.

I have one. If anyone wants it I'd be happy to mail it to them.

EDIT: it's found a home!

"LLM + speech" was such an obvious and inevitable idea, so their only advantage was rushing to sell to the early adopters. It could have been an app, but the margin on a device is higher. But early adopters with novice coding ability realized the openAI API is just a single curl command. I like the free voice call modes the chatgpt and gemini apps have now, but I'm still using my homemade slapped-together phone and laptop apps (if you can call a few lines of shell script an app) since the groqcloud API is soooo much faster than openAI (instant really) and has `whisper-large-v3` & `llama-3.1-70b-versatile`.

I have one on my desk unopened. I’m in the UK and by the time it finally arrived all the stories had come out about how lame it was. Just have not invested any time on it.

> explaining that the device had to launch before it was ready in order to beat big tech companies to the punch.

What big tech companies? Rabbit doesn't have any competition.

I wonder how many of them are actual hardware, and not the hackers that have been playing cat-and-mouse to run the software on other Android devices.

Still better than many web3 projects

No idea what this even is. After reading the article, I know even less.

That’s honestly more than I thought after watching mkbhd’s review.

lot of suckers

That is clearly an inflated number to please the investors.