I got an R1. So far I barely use it. What I really want is something that can be enough of an agent for me that it can unfuck web interfaces; post the same story or picture to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and my own website, and perform similar cross-site and cross-app flows that I’d like. The Rabbit’s not near there yet.
It did however come with a year’s free subscription to Perplexity AI. And that has definitely won me over. I have it as a separate app on my phone. It searches deeply and well, much better and more quickly than Google. It also shows and links citations, and has no ads by itself. It’s ably dodging clickbait and vapor sites that make pages out of Google queries. It also has the nice option of not sending me 1000s of ads on all platforms for brown shoes if I happen to look up the old show “Tenspeed and Brownshoe”.
I’m very much enjoying using Perplexity, and at $20/mo am likely to continue the subscription. Feeling freed from advertising feels that good.
