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Ironically, almost all of the third-party integrations that the company has introduced — DoorDash, Uber, Midjourney, and more — are being retired, so these functions don’t work. (Not that they really worked before.) The scroll wheel is less janky, and the interface improvements are welcome. For example, you can now press and hold the push-to-talk button and scroll up or down to change the volume.
There have been many updates to R1 over the years, but three stand out: Beta Rabbit, LAM Playground, and Teach Mode.
Beta Rabbit uses advanced large language models for a more conversational experience when you ask R1 something. I didn’t find it all that conversational GPT-4o Or Gemini Live. I asked it how we know anything about the first year of the universe, and it started reading a quote. At one point, it mentioned the “cosmic microwave background” where I interrupted it and asked how to detect it. R1 followed by “searching for the cosmic microwave background,” “searching for this,” and “searching for that.” After these five, it finally started reading an answer about CMBs.
LAM Playground is an interesting feature accessible on the Rabbit web portal. These “large action models” run in a virtual browser that you can interact with, and are basically meant to show how Rabbit will be able to perform tasks for you. (You know, because it couldn’t do it at launch!) Enter a prompt and the rabbit bots will execute it. For example, you can tell it to find an item and add it to your Amazon cart, although you’ll have to log into Amazon through this virtual browser, which seems like a huge privacy risk.
I asked it to do a Google search for “best office chair” and then take me to the retailer’s webpage. It took a long time to do this and it typed “best office chair review 2023”. (Is R1 on a different timeline?) But it still went to the first result (which is my own The Office Chair GuideThank you very much), and it took me to the product page Branch Ergonomic Chair ProMy top recommendation.
Where LAM Playground lets you see how it all works, Teach Mode lets you put it into action It’s still in beta (I’d argue R1 is still in beta). After a few attempts, I got an error that made the feature unusable. Finally, it worked on a different day. I created a lesson, and then performed the steps within a virtual browser – R1 logs every click Then, when I asked my R1 device to perform actions, it mimicked my actions.
