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Nothing about those features is specific to this device. OpenAI can do it in their app, or Google/Apple as a built in phone integration. In fact those companies have more data, more compute, more experience and more end users which matters a lot for AI. And most importantly, OpenAI/Google/Apple can basically get app developers to add any missing details into their apps. Rabbit can't.

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>OpenAI can do it in their app, or Google/Apple as a built in phone integration

Have they done so or described any upcoming plans to do so? Rabbit is doing it now.

Man this site is so anti-hacker it's insane. Probably because it's 90% big tech employees that are actively hurt by startups shaking things up. Should be renamed

You're talking about a $200 closed source box which is basically a strip down phone.

Hacker is more like yo I built this myself with a raspberry pi, here's the source code to get it working. We have every right to criticize commercial products, particularly when they're not really doing anything unique.

Which is more "hacker" - Rabbit or Google?

> Rabbit is doing it now.

You mean Perplexity, Anthropic, and OpenAI are doing so now. Rabbit is just using their models.

Also, Startups are not hackers.

Google I/O is 2 weeks away. WWDC is 6 weeks.

And we know both companies have plans for enhanced assistants this year.

And this isn’t a hacker device. It’s not open source or easily modifiable.

I don’t think Rabbit AI has anything to do with “hacker” culture. It’s a dishonest business model based on a grift. They sell you a piece of redundant e-waste hardware that is less capable than existing websites and will inevitably shut down in literal months after Google and Apple inevitably show off their AI OS integrations in their developer conferences.

Building a company that solely exists as a financial vehicle to be acquired or sell $50 plastic computers for $200 isn’t “hacking.” It’s a grift.

Making something cool and selling it for a profit isn't grifting

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