Trevor started his digital career in 1974.
The Rabbit R1, a brand new handheld 'AI' gadget was announced on 12 January this year, to excitement from some corners of the internet . I preordered it the moment I heard about it. Why? My career in the software industry started fifty years ago, teaching Cobol programming for mainframe computers, and I was the second man into a startup that got venture capital to open an office in Silicon Valley all the way back in 1983.
When I saw the Rabbit R1, I had a vision of hiding all that complexity, and talking to a walkie-talkie by pressing a button, to get my work done. Maybe that is not realistic, but it is definitely worth exploring. I have asked Rabbit if Equal Care Co-op can join their beta testing programme, when it is open, to see how we can access our tech platform through talking to an R1.
My Rabbit R1 order is in the third batch of 10,000, so it ought to arrive in May or June. Meanwhile, although my order only cost £171, I have already been given a year’s free access to theWe're thrilled to announce our partnership with Rabbit: Together, we are introducing real-time, precise answers to Rabbit R1, seamlessly powered by our cutting-edge PPLX online LLM API, free from any knowledge cutoff. Plus, for the first 100,000 Rabbit R1 purchases, we're… pic.twitter.
So far, I love Perplexity Pro because it enables me to ask questions in plain language, and it uses the best Large Language Model to find the answer, with links to where it found them - and it is really fast. The Rabbit R1 will use it to improve its understanding of what you are asking it to do. Perplexity Pro usually costs £200 for an annual licence, so I am already ahead on my investment. When I get my Rabbit R1, I’ll let you know how I get on with it. Until I get why hands on it and try it for real, I can’t tell whether it is an iPhone killer or a gimmicky gadget. I look forward to finding out.Daily design news, reviews, how-tos and more, as picked by the editors.Trevor started his digital career in 1974.
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