Rabbit – an AI company focusing on consumer hardware and foundation model research – recently announced that it had raised a $20 million round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors, including Synergis Capital, and strategic partners, including Kakao Investment. The funding round will be used to scale the company’s engineering and product development efforts and prepare for its hardware launch early next year.
The company’s core product is rabbit OS, an AI-powered personalized operating system through a natural language interface and a dedicated consumer mobile device to host the OS. This system enables users to interact with their devices using natural language rather than apps and menus. And rabbit OS can comprehend complex user intentions, operate user interfaces, and perform actions on behalf of the user.
rabbit OS is powered by a Large Action Model (LAM), a new foundation model that understands human intentions on computers. By utilizing LAM, rabbit OS empowers any user, regardless of their professional skills, to teach the system how to achieve specific goals on applications. LAM continuously learns and imitates from aggregated demonstrations of users and it enables the OS to execute complex tasks on consumer interfaces quickly. Plus, it facilitates these tasks in a humanizing way without the user needing to install the applications or leverage specialized application programming interfaces (APIs).
KEY QUOTES:
“Interaction with rabbit will be like interacting with a friend, who learns by observing how you tackle a task and listening to your explanations in plain language.”
“Computers, since their inception, have been designed as non-intuitive tools; even with the recent boom of advanced artificial intelligence, our relationship with the computer remained unchanged, as of a passive one. rabbit is launched as an effort to reverse this relationship, to envision a world where technology enhances the human experience.”
- Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of rabbit
“We were early to invest in AI and continue to look for companies that can have a large impact. Large Action Model seems to be the missing puzzle between today’s AI-powered chatbots and the transformative consumer experiences we can imagine in the future. In rabbit, we saw a team that has deep technical expertise combined with strong consumer experience to build a new class of personal devices.”
- Kanu Gulati, Partner at Khosla Ventures
