Rabbit presents the artificial intelligence agent that it should have launched initially.
The Rabbit artificial intelligence agent learns to play 2048.
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The company Rabbit has made advancements in its technology, despite the collapse of the Humane AI Pin. In a recent blog post and video, they introduced a “generalist Android agent” that gradually controls applications on a tablet, similar to what the Rabbit R1 device originally promised over a year ago. However, the R1 never met those expectations.
The demonstration does not involve the use of the Rabbit R1. Instead, the engineers make their requests through an input box on a laptop, which is then translated into actions on an Android tablet. During the presentation, they ask the agent to find a video on YouTube or search for a whiskey cocktail recipe in a drink app, gathering the ingredients and adding them to a shopping list in Google Keep. They also request that it download the puzzle game 2048 and learn how to play it, a task it accomplishes, albeit with some slowness.
The model generally responds to requests, although sometimes in peculiar ways, such as sending a poem via WhatsApp in separate messages instead of in one block. One engineer wonders if they should have requested the use of line breaks in their input, but they do not try again.
Despite Rabbit's efforts, its artificial intelligence agent remains a work in progress, as it has been since the launch of the R1, which showed almost none of the capabilities promised by founder and CEO Jesse Lyu in January 2024. Rabbit has been consistently rolling out updates, including the ability to train its agents to perform specific tasks or to modify their own interface. According to the company's blog post, the examples shown correspond to “only the main action loop that completes an Android agent.” Rabbit promises to provide more information about its “upcoming multi-agent cross-platform system” in the coming weeks.
