Source: Silicon Alien
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Recently, two popular newcomers in the AI industry have collaborated.
On January 18th, Perplexity, a conversational answer engine company, and rabbit, which launched the AI pocket companion r1 that attracted a lot of attention, officially announced their partnership on X.
In the article, rabbit wrote: "We have always been looking for top-notch AI services and partners to help users complete tasks quickly and accurately. Therefore, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Perplexity to enhance the natural language search function of rabbit OS."
Perplexity expressed that they are very pleased to provide seamless support for rabbit with their advanced PPLX online LLM API, and to work together to advance the real-time, precise, and completely unrestricted knowledge answering function of r1.
What's more eye-catching is: For the first 100,000 customers who order rabbit r1, Perplexity will provide a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro cross-platform service.
Many netizens are attracted by the "benefits" of this collaboration:
It's worth noting that the subscription fee for Perplexity Pro is $20 per month, and the discounted annual subscription price is $200. Becoming a Pro user not only provides access to over 300 Copilot assistant calls per day and a $5 API usage limit, but also unlocks the file upload function, and allows users to freely choose from large models such as GPT4, Claude-2, and PPLX's self-developed online LLMs, and receive more timely customer support.
The compact and versatile rabbit r1 is priced at only $199, with no hidden costs. For those who want to experience innovative AI technology services, it's definitely a win-win situation. (As a user who spent $200 on Perplexity Pro last month, I'm already crying in the bathroom…)
Aravind Srinivas, the founder of Perplexity, happily reposted, stating that rabbit r1 is now a knowledge companion!
Regarding these two companies, Silicon Alien recently reported in "Perplexity, which raised $70 million from Bezos and Nvidia, is really aiming to replace Google" and "For only $199, the palm-sized AI hardware "Rabbit" that aims to eliminate apps caused a sensation at CES, and it was created by the once most ambitious entrepreneur in China", which has received widespread attention and discussion:
Perplexity was co-founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny He, and Andy Konwinski in 2022 in San Francisco, aiming to provide an efficient and transparent new search experience. The company developed the world's first fully-featured conversational answer engine, perplexity.ai, which allows users to obtain direct and accurate answers through natural language queries, including all cited sources and complete links, and can continuously guide users into deeper exploration.
Although not as well-known as OpenAI, Perplexity has accumulated a good reputation among its user base with its excellent product experience, and has received support from Silicon Valley heavyweights such as former Twitter VP Elad Gil and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
Earlier this month, Perplexity completed a $73.6 million Series B financing led by IPV, with a valuation of $520 million, and its monthly active users exceeded 10 million, showing strong recent growth.
On the other hand, rabbit Inc. is a new AI company founded by Lu Cheng, the founder of the once popular intelligent hardware company Du Ya Technology, after he went to the United States and carefully polished it. It has brought game technology Quantum Engine driven by AI plot development and self-developed AI underlying technology Kernel, and developed a new operating system OS2 based on this.
At the just-concluded 2024 CES, the AI pocket companion r1, which runs on the rabbit OS system, immediately attracted attention and shone brightly. Backed by "Large-scale Action Models" (LAM), rabbit r1 is described as being able to understand complex human intentions, operate various applications on behalf of users without the need to call APIs, and avoid cumbersome touch interactions.
The sleek and innovative appearance of r1 was created by the well-known Swedish design company Teenage Engineering. The hardware configuration includes a 2.88-inch touchscreen, a 2.3GHz MediaTek processor, 4GB of memory, and 128GB of storage space, as well as a 360-degree rotating camera for taking photos and videos. It supports Bluetooth and WiFi, and has a SIM card slot to provide users with mobile network connectivity.
Lu Cheng and his team are committed to creating "the simplest computer to operate in the world." Users only need to hold down the side talk button to input voice commands, allowing r1 to help with tasks such as knowledge answering, ordering food, calling a car, and editing files.
On the day of its release, the palm-sized r1 swept through major US tech media coverage of CES, sparking lively online discussions. Despite differing opinions, it achieved surprising results on its launch day with its innovative AI technology concept and a user-friendly price of $199: it quickly sold 10,000 units, announcing the sell-out of the first batch of pre-ordered devices. Rabbit had to contact the factory to work overtime to meet the unexpectedly high product demand.
After announcing the collaboration today, Lu Cheng and Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas held a live voice broadcast on X. He said, "LAM is really great. We are not satisfied with just doing web pages and apps. We want to do hardware. rabbit is taking risks in everything, and r1 is also a risk. No one knows what the result will be, the market will tell us the answer." Regarding Perplexity, he believes, "After my personal testing, Perplexity is the best."
Aravind also expressed, "I am very excited to collaborate with rabbit, and I hope this will be a great thing for many years to come."
From the comments of netizens, there is great expectation and affirmation for the collaboration between the two parties:
ThursdAI podcast host Alex Volkov said, "Great, we will discuss this topic on the podcast today! I'm glad to be a PPLX pro member now!"
"2024 has only just begun for 18 days, rabbit x Teenage Engineering x Perplexity, unbelievable."
"I have an r1 on the way, and now I'm even more excited! Perplexity platform is superb, this integration is both appropriate and powerful for an already revolutionary application."
"Perplexity is rapidly collaborating with half of the AI field. Love it!"
"This is a great collaboration, it makes sense for Perplexity to be available on r1. You both have a disruptive vision, and it's great to see the service and device together providing a unique experience."
Many voices also expressed their intention to get r1 now. For a brand new AI hardware product that is still full of unknowns for the general public, having the support of an excellent service like Perplexity, which has been verified by millions of users, undoubtedly adds a lot of confidence and assurance.
From the official release to today, Rabbit has been continuously generating topics on social media, and orders have been increasing. This is undoubtedly necessary for an experimental AI hardware product. After all, another wearable smart hardware AI Pin, which was also a hot topic at the time of its release, seemed to only generate discussion at the time of its release, and then after a quiet period, news of a 4% workforce reduction due to cost cutting emerged.
For new AI companies challenging dominant giants, joining forces is a wise choice, and keeping themselves in the public discussion is also a smart strategy. Everything is becoming more lively.
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