Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on r1 on October 1
The Rabbit r1 was the must-have gadget of early 2024, but the blush fell off it pretty quickly when the company’s expansive promises failed to materialize. CEO Jesse Lyu admits that “on day one, we set our expectations too high” but also said that an update coming to devices next week will finally set the vaunted Large Action Model free on the web.
While skeptics may (justifiably) see this as too little, too late, or another shifting of goalposts, Rabbit’s aspiration of building a platform-agnostic agent for web and mobile apps still has fundamental — if still largely theoretical — value.
Speaking to TechCrunch, Lyu said that the last six months have been a whirlwind of shipping, bug fixes, improving response times, and adding minor features. But despite 16 over-the-air updates to the r1, it remains fundamentally limited to interacting with an LLM or accessing one of seven specific services, like Uber and Spotify.
“That was the first-ever version of the LAM, trained on recordings collected from data laborers, but it isn’t generic — it only connects to those services,” he said. Whether or not it was what they call the LAM is pretty much academic at this point; whatever the model was, it didn’t provide the capabilities Rabbit detailed at its debut.
