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Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

#51

No one, including us, will be able to use personally identifiable information (your name, phone number, email address, etc.) for any purpose other than serving you. Has some CPP vibes.

CPP?

It's an LLM technology that allows certain models to run on CPUs rather than big beefy GPUs. Makes running locally viable for consumers.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

#53

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It’s $199. At that price it could be a viable cool toy like product to have in addition to your normal smartphone.

I don't see it. Base model Pixel 7 can be found in multiple places for $250 right now, so you're not coming in much cheaper than that, but more importantly, I don't really see a whole lot of demand for a second phone even as a cool toy. This feels like the type of thing people would buy, play with for a week or two, and then it would end up in a drawer never to be used again.

I think the target market of this doesn’t overlap with spare pixel 7 buyers, and it’s not meant to be mass market and have a huge demand.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Quick feedback if the founders are watching this: Please allow controls on your keynote video. The video production quality looks great. But I am not watching it if I don't know if it's a 30s one or a 30minute one.

Also please describe it in pictures and words too. Video only really limits where I can watch this. I’m in a waiting currently and I’m not about to just play a video like some sort of psycho.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

#58
I think what’s impressive here is their approach to “Teach Mode”, which essentially teaches the average consumer how machine learning works. I think that’s already a much better approach than Humane Ai and provides a better path long term for where this could go. This approach of a Large Action Model that can control any of your apps by watching you use them is a unique implementation for a hardware device. The hardware isn’t super impressive but the approach has staying power. It’s always way less invasive than Humane AI pin, it’s deliberate usage.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Note that this is a Teenage Engineering collab! Pretty exciting and a crazy low price point for something with their name on it. This isn't a phone though right? The title seems wrong.

Yeah, the price difference between this and Teenage Engineering's own products is wild! It's worth noting the Playdate (by Panic) is designed by Teenage Engineering and also just $200. https://shop.play.date

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

#60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see it. Base model Pixel 7 can be found in multiple places for $250 right now, so you're not coming in much cheaper than that, but more importantly, I don't really see a whole lot of demand for a second phone even as a cool toy. This feels like the type of thing people would buy, play with for a week or two, and then it would end up in a drawer never to be used again.

I think the target market of this doesn’t overlap with spare pixel 7 buyers, and it’s not meant to be mass market and have a huge demand.

At the moment your right, but as Google starts to implement LLM assistants into their product it's going to eat this things lunch. I would guess maybe 18-24 months max before Google assistant can do everything this thing can and they already have a phone at a similar price. Once that happens, I just don't see what niche this fills into other than "it's not Apple or Google".
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