April 2024 was the month of AI hardware, and it did not go well at all. Both the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 were recently released as AI hardware devices promising to change the way we interact with the world. As you can probably infer from the title of this post, both devices failed to live up to their ambitious claims. While first-gen products aren't usually the best, there's a much deeper problem going on here.

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The Rabbit R1 is a new type of device, which many are comparing to the Humane AI Pin. It can answer questions, use a camera to tell you information about what it's seeing, and more.

The Rabbit R1 is a pocketable AI assistant that's arrived alongside questionable reviews at best. Criticized for its slow responses, poor battery life, and an existence that's made defunct by modern smartphone capabilities, many are wondering what the point behind it, and by extension the company, actually is. Things are now going from bad to worse for Rabbit, as it's now been revealed that the company was once an NFT company that pulled the entire project that people had invested thousands of dollars into.

The Rabbit R1 is the second major gadget to launch this year as basically a portable device for interacting with cloud-based AI features. Unlike the Humane Ai Pin, the Rabbit R1 has a display that provides visual information. And with a $200 price tag, it’s a lot easier for forgive its shortcomings than the $699 […]

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