Decoder with Nilay Patel

Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn't thinking too far ahead

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Rabbit’s adorable R1 gadget launched with a lot of hype, but early reviews of the device were universally bad. Now, a core feature, its long-promised LAM Playground has arrived. I had a lot of big questions for CEO Jesse Lyu about how it all works — not just technologically, but if his plans are sustainable from a business and legal perspective. 


Links: 


  • Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget | The Verge
  • Loopholes aren’t a technology | Buzzfeed News (2012)
  • I tested Rabbit R1's next generation LAM — and it tried to gaslight me | Tom’s Hardware
  • I tried Rabbit's LAM Playground, and I'm still disappointed | Android Authority
  • Rabbit's AI bot will try to help you do anything (keyword is 'try') | Fast Company
  • Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on R1 October 1 | TechCrunch
  • Rabbit R1 founder defends “unfinished” AI gadget | City AM
  • AI hardware is in its flip-phone phase | Fast Company
  • The iPhone 16 will ship as a work in progress | The Verge
  • Humane AI Pin review: Not even close | The Verge
  • Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app | The Verge


    • Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/24024222


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