The Rabbit R1 will offer up-to-date answers powered by Perplexity's AI

The Rabbit R1 launch at CES left many questions unanswered, but earlier today, the brand finally shed light on which LLM (large language model) will be powering the device's interaction with us mere mortals. The AI provider in question is none other than Perplexity, a San Francisco-based startup with ambitions to overtake Google in the AI space, which is no wonder that it has already received investments from the likes of NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos. Perplexity will be providing up-to-date search results via Rabbit's 199 orange brick -- without the need of any subscription. That said, the first 100,000 R1 buyers will receive one year of Perplexity Pro subscription -- normally costing 200 -- for free. This advanced service adds file upload support, a daily quota of over 300 complex queries and the ability to switch to other AI models (GPT-4, Claude 2.1 or Gemini), though these don't necessarily apply to the R1's use case.