That said long term I want them or others to succeed.
The last thing I want (and most others should want) is a world where only Apple and Google are the only ones hosting mobile AI products.
As any phone OS integrated Apple AI or Google AI will beat out any shipped apps store AI app long term.
If a new hardware form factor is the way to break that duopoly then I wish them all the best.
I think the thing people should want is on-device AI.
Because I honestly don't see the advantage in terms of privacy or performance to have Rabbit R1 proxy my requests to chatgpt or other cloud LLMs... At that point I might as well use Google AI or Apple AI instead of adding 2+ parties to my private AI use.
The only real allure of a separate device, for me, is isolating the bot from my data. I don't want it reading my emails and notifications and who knows what else. I suppose you could also market this for kids but they didn't go that route.
Purely from a hardware perspective, a phone has all the sensors, chips etc needed for AI applications, so I'm puzzled why Humane and Rabbit thought that a standalone device was a better idea.
Rabbit's approach is one-sided (train their model to generate needed API calls, and maybe also perform Selenium-style simulated actions?) which should make it more flexible if inherently less reliable than dedicated plugins written by developers from the apps looking to be called via AI