If there’s one overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. It would have been difficult to time the release better. Generative AI hype had reached a fever pitch. The R1 looks as much like an art piece as anything. It’s a squat, orange object. ChatGPT and Google Gemini will be increasingly baked into mobile operating systems in the months and years to come.
If there’s one overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. It would have been difficult to time the release better. Generative AI hype had reached a fever pitch. The R1 looks as much like an art piece as anything. It’s a squat, orange object. ChatGPT and Google Gemini will be increasingly baked into mobile operating systems in the months and years to come.