The Rabbit R1 is as bad as it is cute

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  • čas přidán 5. 05. 2024
  • The Rabbit R1 is a cute AI toy that's grossly incompetent. When phones can handle similar AI tasks, does the R1 do enough to justify its existence?
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Komentáře • 141

  • @adnanaliable
    @adnanaliable Před měsícem +193

    How dare you call a bad product bad, you will bankrupt the company.

    • @mysticmarble94
      @mysticmarble94 Před měsícem +12

      😎 Yes 😎

    • @megatronskneecap
      @megatronskneecap Před měsícem +6

      Bankrupt by MKBHD

    • @megamegaO
      @megamegaO Před měsícem +2

      I'd argue that the product looks really nice...it's the just that, the R1 company is finding a solution to a problem that never existed.

    • @Asovo
      @Asovo Před měsícem +2

      Then just go bankrupt 😂😂, what's the point to waste money get a useless product 😂😂😂😂

  • @TempoFino
    @TempoFino Před měsícem +89

    PSA - They do not have their own AI models, they use ChatGPT and Perplexity AI. When ChatGPT had an outage 2 days ago, the rabbit r1 was not working. It's a literal brick if ChatGPT goes down.

    • @DerpyNoodIe
      @DerpyNoodIe Před měsícem +6

      I honestly wish they would let people use ChatGPT4 on it. Because I know they are using 3.5 API. It would make the Rabbit R1 100x better if they let you sign in to your ChatGPT account (since I have ChatGPT Plus) and use it for prompting, vision, and voice. I tested my Rabbit R1 against ChatGPT4 and the Rabbit R1 just gets completely obliterated against ChatGPT4 because it answers questions FAR more accurately, identifies images a LOT better, and it's more human-like in it's responses which feels natural, especially when using OpenAI's voice feature to carry a conversation with it about a topic.

    • @robertluong3024
      @robertluong3024 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@DerpyNoodIeyeah but if they did they'd charge you the $20 USD a month it costs. I think the 3.5 is free.

    • @DerpyNoodIe
      @DerpyNoodIe Před měsícem

      @@robertluong3024 I meant for them to add it as an option to log into your OpenAI account to access ChatGPT4 (especially if you're already paying for it) and also as an option for those that are willing to pay for it. Otherwise they can continue to use the default one at no additional cost. It would just be nice to have more options to what models you use when using the device.

    • @quantuminfinity4260
      @quantuminfinity4260 Před měsícem +1

      @@robertluong3024The API is not free, it depends on the specific version of 4 you are using, but 3.5 is around a 10th the cost of the 8K tokens GPT-4, if I remember correctly.

    • @kindzadza134
      @kindzadza134 Před měsícem +1

      Man, the more I watch vids on these AI disasters, the funnier and funnier it grts 😂😂😂

  • @Ray__E
    @Ray__E Před 29 dny +10

    It looks like something you would order from Temu

  • @doingtime20
    @doingtime20 Před 8 dny +1

    They tried so hard to make you forget the existence of smartphones, because obviously everybody can see this is just an smartphone app in a shiny box.

  • @DJourney87
    @DJourney87 Před měsícem +10

    The fact that each review gets worse and worse tickles me to no end....I have to watch them ALL.

  • @MarkDell
    @MarkDell Před měsícem +44

    I’ve watched this video 3 times and I still can’t tell if Devindra likes the R1 or not. I wish he’d be more direct and not beat around the bush.

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 Před měsícem +2

      He told you it doesn't do much and it's a waste of money. What more do you want him to say? LOL

    • @supercurioTube
      @supercurioTube Před měsícem +7

      ​@@enadegheeghaghe6369that was sarcasm (and it made me laugh)

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 Před měsícem +1

      @@supercurioTube my sarcasm detector must be broken. LOL

    • @supercurioTube
      @supercurioTube Před měsícem +1

      @@enadegheeghaghe6369 this time definitely 😆 that can happen 😌

    • @user-ct8zg4nb3g
      @user-ct8zg4nb3g Před měsícem

      A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own and will use modern smart phones???

  • @x_flies
    @x_flies Před měsícem +29

    As soon as I saw it I told people that’s just an app wrapped into an overpriced Tamagotchi.

    • @TimDespairBear11
      @TimDespairBear11 Před měsícem +5

      EXACTLY. The hardware offers nothing that a smartphone can’t do. This device would have been impressive in 2005.

    • @john_hunter_
      @john_hunter_ Před měsícem

      It isn't just an app.
      It runs a modified version of Android that allows Ai to interact with any app on the device.
      It's just a bad implementation of the idea.

    • @kindzadza134
      @kindzadza134 Před měsícem +2

      ​@john_hunter_ so basically not a shitty app, but a shitty launcher, got it.

  • @MiguelJCintron
    @MiguelJCintron Před měsícem +8

    Now we know what the Juicero guy has been working on.

  • @megamegaO
    @megamegaO Před měsícem +3

    Honestly, this would've been a GREAT mp3 player, if sold for maybe 100 i do think it would have done fine. Yeah i know i cna jsut bring out my phone, but idk id feel like this device would is a good small alternative for the music player aspect

  • @itsme3217
    @itsme3217 Před 29 dny

    the lam if flaw from the begining if website use captcha then the ai will solve ?

  • @bravolatavera3647
    @bravolatavera3647 Před měsícem +12

    made with Flutter framework. just App calling some API

    • @anthonybf2
      @anthonybf2 Před měsícem

      because everything needs a stupid framework now.... does anyone still write their own programs from scratch?

  • @MiguelJCintron
    @MiguelJCintron Před měsícem +2

    Teenage engineering, teenage planning, teenage maturity, teenage attention span, teenage stupidity

  • @tomhools1605
    @tomhools1605 Před měsícem +1

    Jeez, for $200 you can buy a decent smartphone.

  • @UpgradeLemonade
    @UpgradeLemonade Před měsícem

    Excellent video. My hopes were it would be faster to respond and have longer battery life than the Humane pin. But with these equally huge shortcomings you end up just gravitating back to your phone( which ends up being double the work for 1 query) suffice to say both of these devices are just not better than a smartphone and keep you more distracted by fiddling with them for longer

  • @billschonfelder1027
    @billschonfelder1027 Před měsícem +4

    Got my rabbit today and you can't open one single website without being subscribed to it. You can't teach it, you can't scan documents, pretty much everything that Jessie did in the announcement party is totally foreign to the one in my hand. So you will literally have to be subscribed to about 100 different sights to just use the device like Jessie said it would work.

  • @timetraveler_0
    @timetraveler_0 Před měsícem

    Which year was this released in?

  • @jamesjennings8574
    @jamesjennings8574 Před měsícem +1

    Why not just have a Rabbit app and use a phone as the hardware? What a waste of time, money and well… everything

  • @Onemurillo
    @Onemurillo Před 15 dny

    I don't need an AI assistant or whatever. However I would like a smartphone with that form factor lol

  • @gbtBob
    @gbtBob Před 17 dny

    The price point of $39 retail should help this doomed product.

  • @crofty13001
    @crofty13001 Před měsícem +1

    Beginning of the end for AI?

  • @mauriciomunoz87
    @mauriciomunoz87 Před měsícem +12

    What a total waste of time for these tech companies to be reviewing these useless devices from 2003

    • @noway8233
      @noway8233 Před měsícem

      Paperweigth , or AI paperweigth

  • @WadeFrick
    @WadeFrick Před měsícem +1

    I am so glad I didn't pull the trigger and purchased this before watching the reviews, that thing is almost useless. I'll wait for updated versions, if they fix the battery drainage.

  • @ZacCato
    @ZacCato Před 29 dny

    Thx

  • @ClnlSozer
    @ClnlSozer Před měsícem +5

    "The rabbit does look interesting" in my plate😅

  • @c0d3warrior
    @c0d3warrior Před 19 dny

    $200 "worth" of e-waste.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 Před měsícem +2

    A $100 Moto G does more than this.

  • @alchan5482
    @alchan5482 Před 24 dny

    I think the new GPT-4o that just got launched, can do everything this can do but on your phone now, it can use audio, visual and text

  • @phdonme1
    @phdonme1 Před 26 dny

    Hey look we invented Google lens
    Except we charge $200 for it
    In our data set is like way smaller and way slower

  • @benmarshall5235
    @benmarshall5235 Před 27 dny

    Very comprehensive and damning review. Good work

  • @zwaveevents
    @zwaveevents Před měsícem

    Perplexity and a phone for the win.

  • @akhathos1618
    @akhathos1618 Před měsícem

    The fact that people have gone out en masse to buy that garbage speaks worse about the people than about Rabbit.

  • @_icscata_
    @_icscata_ Před 21 dnem

    A 20$ eBay phone would be a better choice…… 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @EVILJAMARR
    @EVILJAMARR Před měsícem +7

    Why does it get so much press?

    • @hicamajig
      @hicamajig Před měsícem +6

      MKBHD said on the podcast that every time they mention it in the podcast it gets more views/listens than any other episode. High level of interest.

    • @Neojhun
      @Neojhun Před měsícem +3

      To warn people.

    • @MARIOMAKER-wk8vy
      @MARIOMAKER-wk8vy Před měsícem +10

      I believe it's because the device is novel and looks weird and cool, and teenage engineering devices are usually met with love and appreciation. On top of that, we are in a AI-Hype bubble at the moment so it's just riding the wave of hype many other ai products have been riding/pushing along.

    • @robertluong3024
      @robertluong3024 Před měsícem +2

      I think its because of its promises. They promised the world and are getting called out for it.

  • @asamson23
    @asamson23 Před měsícem

    If I want to have a portable device that’s not my phone, I will take my Apple Watch any day of the week.

  • @greuceanu3460
    @greuceanu3460 Před měsícem +3

    I got mine and cant use it- i was barely be able to log in the midjourney but was not able to produce one image. Its cute but useless. Even the rabbit hole is so disorganized, there is no transcription of voice , wished that can do more but will end up in a drawer along to other things. Not unless there will be some amazing software update

    • @radiobits3007
      @radiobits3007 Před měsícem +2

      Perhaps you need to consider why you bought this and all the other things in your drawer...while somebody else is enjoying your money 👌

  • @yannpoco
    @yannpoco Před měsícem

    What they need is stable APIs from those companies, officially. LAM is just a transitional plan before having those officials APIs.

  • @ProfessionalMusicPartners
    @ProfessionalMusicPartners Před měsícem

    Make my own damn samwich 🐲

  • @mixedhairless
    @mixedhairless Před měsícem

    Gizmondo , Tapwave

  • @zyxyuv1650
    @zyxyuv1650 Před měsícem +2

    It's over, there won't be a Rabbit R2. They will transition to an app company. The investment wasn't high enough, you need billions of dollars to compete with Google and Apple.

  • @rodrigofernety
    @rodrigofernety Před měsícem +2

    but markees was overreacting? lmao this thing was a nonsense since that expo

  • @RichardServello
    @RichardServello Před měsícem +2

    How is battery life so bad on these things? It has a shitty, tiny screen that isn’t even bright and it doesn’t do anything on device. It should last a week on a charge!!

    • @supercurioTube
      @supercurioTube Před měsícem

      That's a good question. The R1
      - runs an Android OS
      - is designed to listen for voice commands only when you press a button
      - doesn't run google services
      It should be super power efficient and last a long time when idle like you said.
      My guess is that the Rabbit app is configured to prevent it to go to sleep with a wakelock otherwise it was missing some replies or notifications from the backend.
      Just an extraordinarily poor implementation for a mobile device, there's really no excuse when using Android as a base OS.

    • @davidcuellar7414
      @davidcuellar7414 Před měsícem

      The battery drain was fixed in the last update. It was a bug, apparently.
      Too bad nothing else was really fixed with the update, lol

  • @baandoptager
    @baandoptager Před měsícem +2

    Oh man, they should’ve waited for that update LOL

  • @darthstarone3532
    @darthstarone3532 Před měsícem +1

    Why 🤔

  • @TheJamesBraun
    @TheJamesBraun Před měsícem

    canceled my preorder

  • @user-ct8zg4nb3g
    @user-ct8zg4nb3g Před měsícem

    A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own and will use modern smart phones???😒 🎉

  • @asmodon
    @asmodon Před měsícem

    Did you like it? I couldn’t tell.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 Před měsícem +3

    I have the option to use ChatGPT in a browser or app on a phone. I have MetaAI to generate images on the same phone, and Google Lens for document transcription. Also, a phone does non-AI activities and saves every file type in existence. Without internet, a phone is still extremely functional. Why would anybody buy this orange brick?

  • @almensabani8560
    @almensabani8560 Před měsícem

    If you don‘t like it, send it to me, i‘ll test it 😂

  • @rdouraka
    @rdouraka Před měsícem +1

    Enter the hype train!!

    • @c0d3warrior
      @c0d3warrior Před 19 dny

      Choo choo! ... Wait, why is the train going backwards...!?

  • @zoinks29
    @zoinks29 Před měsícem

    i don't know, i want something other than android or ios. does not have to be rabbit, but any thing else is welcome

  • @bleedingfinger
    @bleedingfinger Před měsícem

    20 year old hardware, with last years ai

  • @rebbel67
    @rebbel67 Před měsícem

    "Rabid OS"
    Google Translate 😊

  • @runover123987
    @runover123987 Před 29 dny

    they should call is the GAMA NFT 2 since 1 failed. crypto 2.0 with ai ?

  • @bc24us
    @bc24us Před měsícem

    That scroll bar and ok button looks like a weird copy of the iPod wheel

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 Před měsícem +1

      Don't insult the ipod wheel. LOL
      The ipod wheel was fast, precise and very functional

  • @noway8233
    @noway8233 Před měsícem

    The most usefull paperweagth just for only 200us😊

  • @michaeljohnson1413
    @michaeljohnson1413 Před měsícem

    should of it made it as a tablet, a really BAD tablet.

  • @jianizzledrizzle666
    @jianizzledrizzle666 Před měsícem +6

    just buy a phone

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 Před měsícem +1

    Alpha/Pre-Beta products sold at fully featured, finished product prices.

  • @GlennKramer
    @GlennKramer Před měsícem

    Version 2 (if it allows better battery storage and improved scroll wheel and better speaker) will be an improvement. It doesn’t do enough yet.

    • @andyH_England
      @andyH_England Před měsícem

      Phones would have moved on with AI by then offering the same experience. That is why they rushed this: Apple and Google have AI stuff coming soon.

  • @Dave-cg9li
    @Dave-cg9li Před měsícem

    Honestly not surprised that the founder is apparently a former crypto scammer. This one at least somewhat materialised, but he's clearly used to selling people on ideas rather than real products.

  • @scriptles
    @scriptles Před měsícem

    I have said it before, this device is a waste or money. It adds more bulk to your every day carry and your phone already does all of this better.

  • @MadBrit26
    @MadBrit26 Před měsícem

    So so pointless? AI assistance rubbish that simply doesn’t work.

  • @moreyjamison
    @moreyjamison Před měsícem +3

    Zune 2024

    • @lizbertarian
      @lizbertarian Před měsícem +2

      *Juicero 2024

    • @hugoedelarosa
      @hugoedelarosa Před měsícem +2

      The Zune was a good music player. The Rabbit is not good at anything.

  • @fieragamingpr
    @fieragamingpr Před měsícem

    Hi

  • @TimothyCollins
    @TimothyCollins Před měsícem

    In all honesty I think all of these AI devices will not be good buys until probably the 3rd or 4th generation. I would think roughly 2028/2030 there might be a really useful version.

  • @peterphan227
    @peterphan227 Před měsícem

    Does anyone really want to carry this thing around in your pocket? It's chunky, the battery life sucks. You know what I would rather have in my pocket instead of this thing? $200 cash. Takes up less space and is far more useful.

  • @Daveforever
    @Daveforever Před 2 dny

    good review, sir

  • @ShawnMKouri
    @ShawnMKouri Před 25 dny

    That’s because there’s a lot of features that are not available at lunch.

  • @Evergreen319
    @Evergreen319 Před 6 dny

    Coffeezilla made video about this company. CEO of start up also made scam crypto coins couple years back. Dude is at it again and people fell for it.

  • @celebrityrog
    @celebrityrog Před měsícem +1

    Wonder if you can ask it about them horns on your head.

  • @pietrotm1949
    @pietrotm1949 Před 24 dny

    My opinion is for children use.

  • @SebastienBarrau
    @SebastienBarrau Před měsícem +3

    I think this is being posted today but the content of the review might be out of date. The battery issues seem resolved on my end, the scroll is also quite responsive.

    • @andyH_England
      @andyH_England Před měsícem +3

      He mentioned that after the update the battery went from four to eight hours. That is still useless.

  • @mikewickens2016
    @mikewickens2016 Před 15 dny

    Its a 💯 % SCAM watch videos coming out its just a big old scam.

  • @random401
    @random401 Před měsícem

    cant watch this video with his 2 horns

  • @DirtyPlumbus
    @DirtyPlumbus Před měsícem +2

    They took away the reason I bought it, the ability to teach it. This makes it useless.

    • @LouieCartoon
      @LouieCartoon Před měsícem

      The feature roadmap is on the website , the teach update should be rolled out around October

    • @DirtyPlumbus
      @DirtyPlumbus Před měsícem

      @@LouieCartoon that may be, but the overwhelming moral of this story is quite clearly don't judge a product by what is promised. It could never be added.

  • @pwill4real855
    @pwill4real855 Před měsícem

    the two zits on the forehead really give me a zit-popping fantasy

  • @anthonybf2
    @anthonybf2 Před měsícem

    I could order a cheap $5 nugget from Aliexpress and make my own "AI" app that runs on it and it would be better than these useless devices.

  • @atifsarfraz7621
    @atifsarfraz7621 Před 28 dny

    Horrible product

  • @Asovo
    @Asovo Před měsícem

    Another electronic trash

  • @overip
    @overip Před měsícem

    Rabbit R1 is an app running on android and super-old hardware. It is a very badly designed product

    • @LouieCartoon
      @LouieCartoon Před měsícem

      over "I read headlines and regurgitate what I heard" ip

  • @Gabeyre
    @Gabeyre Před měsícem

    Its ok now to dump on tech products - MKBHD done it so it is OK.

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 Před měsícem +1

      What? So reviewers should lie to make a bad product look good? What exactly are you advocating here?

  • @yannpoco
    @yannpoco Před měsícem +2

    If Rabbit can be faster, more functional, and with a more realistic human voice, I may replace my smartphone with it. Smartphone is not really smart and have so many negative impacts on human and society. I’m looking forward for a day when it’s good enough to replace the app based phones. I’m ready to say goodbye to little app icons, and have our OS1 moment with a true AI interface.

  • @acidkhmer
    @acidkhmer Před 16 dny

    With the last videos demo from chat gpt4o with Real human AI discussions. Interactions, rabbit seems a toy from the 80s

  • @Macorelppa
    @Macorelppa Před měsícem +5

    Man u need some ACCUTANE!

  • @TAKUMI143
    @TAKUMI143 Před měsícem

    Mkbhd 2.0😂

  • @naninano8813
    @naninano8813 Před měsícem

    first, they never claimed it would be any good or useful. it looks like a toy and behaves like a toy. it is tamagochi++ and im here for it. just give it more personality and let me care for it. ill buy 2 for my nephews

    • @enadegheeghaghe6369
      @enadegheeghaghe6369 Před měsícem

      A 200 dollar phone in a rugged case would do a lot more for your nephews

  • @keijijohnson9754
    @keijijohnson9754 Před měsícem

    First of all, you can't be one to talk about how bad something looks when you're on camera with those dang bumps on full display on your forehead. Second, Are you just spoiled by that there Humane Pin or whatever that's called or something? BEcause this just doens't look anywhere close to bad looking at all. It's charming to say the least but certainly nowhere close to bad looking.