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rabbit r1, the Consumer AI-native Pocket Companion, Expands Availability Across the UK and European Union

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today, AI startup rabbit inc. announced that r1, a first-of-its-kind AI-native device that puts easy access to the industry’s most advanced consumer AI models in your pocket, is now available across the European Union and the United Kingdom. In addition, rabbit announced that all new r1 orders globally will ship within three business days. 

r1 is rabbit’s first hardware product and has made waves in the consumer electronics industry as the best-selling and most-used native AI device to-date, with more than 100,000 devices sold. One-third of r1 devices sold to-date have been purchased in Europe. Customers have discovered a wide variety of helpful use cases to improve their daily lives with AI, from deciphering complicated parking and road signs, and getting important gardening tips using the AI-powered rabbit eye camera, to translating conversations in real-time and generating healthy recipe ideas with access to leading large language models (LLMs).

r1, rabbit OS and rabbithole – a personalized AI agent experience from end to end

Running on a personalized operating system, r1 is the only consumer AI device that gives users quick and affordable access to the leading AI models in one device, including LLMs from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Anthropic. Combining custom-built software with sleek hardware designed in collaboration with renowned design firm Teenage Engineering, r1 is an on-the-go curiosity catcher, a journal you write with your voice, an encyclopedia at your fingertips, a recorder that summarizes your every thought, a pocket translator, and a reason to bring friends and family together. Each user can manage their personalized history and supported online services in rabbithole, the accompanying secure cloud hub and “brain” of the user’s personal AI assistant. Take a look at our use cases to learn more about how r1 offers a new and useful AI-native experience. 

Commitment to constant improvement for a better user experience

Since launching r1, rabbit has demonstrated its community-focused approach to ensure a fast feedback loop between its consumers and engineers, continuously and rapidly improving and adding more value to r1 through regular software updates based on user feedback. The new “beta rabbit” feature, introduced in July, enables r1 to provide significantly smarter answers to more complex queries. A number of other key updates have also made r1 more useful and delightful, including global memory recall, which personalizes responses in relation to a user’s rabbithole journal content; Wolfram|Alpha integration, which provides users with increased accuracy in computational queries related to mathematics, science, technology, society, and culture; and Magic Camera, which turns photos taken by r1 into creative AI-generated images. While there are currently some regional limitations in Europe, including availability of certain connected apps and additional operating languages, the product is vastly more capable than it was at launch, with new improvements and features added through regular over-the-air (OTA) and cloud updates. This cadence will also apply to Europe as the team continues to listen to feedback and rapidly apply it to the user experience. 

“r1 was designed from day one to be a global device, and we want to deliver it to every corner of the world,” said Jesse Lyu, Founder and CEO of rabbit. “We’re very encouraged to see the existing appetite for r1 in Europe already as we pave the way in this new category of AI-native products.”

Built around security from day 1 and constantly becoming stronger 

rabbit designed the architecture of rabbit OS with security and privacy at the core. “The most important thing we do at rabbit is earn and protect customer trust. This is something that everyone, not just the security team, is charged with when they join the company,” said Matt Domko, Head of Security at rabbit. “We’re actively taking steps to consistently improve our security program on a daily basis.”

To keep up with the fast pace of rabbit’s software updates and growing set of consumer use cases, rabbit regularly works with credible third-party security partners to test the resilience of its system and ensure consumers’ privacy and information security are effectively protected. Learn more about the company’s recent penetration test in this blog post.

r1 only listens when the user presses the physical push-to-talk button to interact with the device, and its rotating camera defaults to a position that physically blocks the lens unless the user explicitly requests it. rabbit also implemented a vulnerability disclosure program (VDP) in May to encourage researchers, developers, and the general public to submit vulnerabilities in a responsible manner.

rabbit r1 is available today across the entire European Union (excluding Malta) and can be purchased at www.rabbit.tech. It costs $199 with no subscription necessary; please refer to the website for current local prices in the UK and Europe. New orders globally will also be processed and shipped within three business days. 

About rabbit

rabbit inc. is an AI startup developing a personalized operating system (OS) through a natural language interface and dedicated, affordable consumer hardware to host the OS. The OS, called rabbit OS, is capable of understanding complex user intentions, operating user interfaces, and performing actions on behalf of the user.

The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and was founded by a group of researchers, engineers, and repeat entrepreneurs with extensive experience in shipping AI hardware products and operating high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to train large AI models. A two-time Y Combinator alumnus, rabbit’s Founder and CEO, Jesse Lyu, previously founded Raven Tech, a startup that pioneered conversational AI operating systems. rabbit raised over $59m in funding to date from investors including Khosla Ventures, Sound Ventures, and Synergis Capital.

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In Turfan, Xinjiang, China’s first commercially operated microgrid has generated nearly 100 million kWh of electricity

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TURFAN, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On November 13, the Turfan New Energy City Microgrid Demonstration Project, China’s first commercially operated microgrid demonstration project, generated nearly 100 million kWh of electricity, equivalent to saving 29,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 77,600 tons.

A microgrid refers to a small-scale power generation and distribution system organized by distributed power sources, power loads, distribution facilities, monitoring and protection devices, etc., which can realize flexible control and autonomous management. Since the end of 2013, the project had been the largest and most comprehensive solar energy utilization and building integration project in China up to that time, with 8.7 MW of photovoltaic power installed on the roofs of 223 residential buildings, generating an annual power capacity of about 10 million kWh.

To promote the physical operation of the project, the State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company invested more than 2 million yuan to cooperate in the construction of microgrid infrastructure, fully supporting the online operation of surplus new energy power generation, promoting the comprehensive utilization of renewable resources in urban buildings, and helping Turfan build a high-quality development demonstration area and a green and low-carbon pilot area.

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Innovations in Guiyang: Adhering to New Industrialization and Promoting High-End, Intelligent and Green Manufacturing

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GUIYANG, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A report by Huanqiu.com

The wave of new industrialization in Guiyang is driving the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in ways like never before. Guiyang is always strategically oriented toward “industrial structure optimization with a focus on industries”, and has made all efforts to develop “four major industrial bases”, highlighting its industrial economy as the “primary driving force” behind development. Especially relying on its policy edge in renewable energy, Guiyang has rapidly emerged as a national new-energy power battery and materials research, development and production center, injecting strong momentum into the city’s economy.

In October 2023, the CATL (Guizhou) New Energy Power and Energy Storage Battery Production Base, located in Gui’an New Area, Guizhou Province, was put into production. The first phase of the base boasts cutting-edge design standards, characterized by “lighthouse + zero carbon factory”. The high-standard facility employs advanced, high-speed, highly automated, and flexible production lines. It is designed to have an annual production capacity of 30 GWh. After the base achieves the designed production capacity, its annual output value is expected to reach 15 billion yuan. According to statistics, the base realized an industrial output value of 618 million yuan in the first half of 2024, and the year’s industrial output value is expected at about 2 billion yuan.

The Chery (Guizhou) industrial base has also yielded unusually brilliant results in the field of new energy vehicles (NEVs), where Chery Automobile’s self-developed “CHEVOO” new-generation light truck KL71 project is undergoing four-pillar car road tests. The advanced pressing, welding, painting and assembly lines, as well as the R&D lab and the all-electric truck production line, together constitute this “digital intelligent” NEV factory. Moreover, the Chery (Guizhou) industrial base has built, extended and strengthened its vehicle manufacturing industry chain so as to master key parts supply chains and reduce development costs.

The Gui’an FinDreams battery project, as an important move of BYD in Guiyang, is also showing its strength in power batteries for NEVs. FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd. at Longshan Industrial Park in Gui’an New Area has four automatic production lines that are operating at high speeds in the workshop, which produce “blade batteries” which are well-known both in and out of the industry. According to reports, 300 battery packs and 40,000 cells can be produced per day.

Guiyang’s “four bases” – a new energy vehicles and battery materials production base, a resource deep-processing base, a computing power assurance base, and an industrial backup base, contribute greatly to the development of NEV and battery materials industry, electronic information manufacturing industry, and advanced equipment manufacturing industry, etc. Data show that in the first three quarters, the added value of Guiyang’s industrial enterprises above designated size grew by 11%, and the contribution of industrial economy to economic growth reached 39.4%.

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Premialab appointed by Lombard Odier Investment Managers to scale Quantitative Investment Strategies

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Premialab’s technology chosen to enhance QIS scaling, operational efficiency, and risk management.

PARIS, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the institutional asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, has integrated Premialab‘s industry-leading technology to support the management of their soon-to-be-launched DOM Global Macro strategy. This partnership underscores LOIM’s commitment to onboard innovative strategies in an evolving market landscape.

“Our decision to partner with Premialab is driven by their comprehensive risk management and regulatory compliance expertise,” said Didier Anthamatten, Portfolio Manager at LOIM. “With a strong track record in alternative investments, LOIM remains focused on delivering innovative investment solutions and high-quality returns for our clients. Premialab’s advanced data capabilities are essential in helping us maintain our rigorous standards and provide robust, risk-adjusted performance. Additionally, their platform perfectly matches the DOM Global Macro strategy’s needs, enhancing our risk monitoring capabilities and streamlining portfolio management.”

The DOM Global Macro strategy expects to leverage Premialab’s unique dataset. The full lookthrough across all DOM’s proprietary systematic strategies allows granular risk decomposition and scenario-based analysis at the entire portfolio level. This should help monitoring exposures’ attractiveness, from both time-series and cross-sectional perspectives, and optimizing asset allocation.

Neil Richards, Head of EMEA Business Development at Premialab, said the collaboration with LOIM is a significant addition to Premialab’s growing business in Switzerland and within the wider European markets.

“Institutions such as LOIM, which oversees a substantial portfolio across various asset classes, need continuous monitoring and adjustment to keep their investments on track,” he explained. “Premialab provides the tools for benchmarking and stress testing their systematic investments, ensuring that LOIM’s mandates are effectively managed in terms of cost, risk, and value.”

Premialab CEO Adrien Géliot highlighted that the QIS sector is experiencing rapid growth, driven by institutional investors seeking liquid, transparent, and cost-efficient investment strategies. “Premialab sits at the centre of the QIS landscape, uniquely positioned to aggregate and make sense of the vast and growing universe of data,” he stated. “We are thrilled to be partnering with LOIM to deliver our unique data and risk monitoring capabilities to one of the top global investment firms.”

Premialab’s multi-asset, multi-region platform handles 10 million data points daily. It analyzes over 5,000 investible systematic strategies, with client assets under management totalling approximately USD $20 trillion. Combining the Premialab platform with Premialab Pure Factors®, it provides comprehensive cross-asset quantitative strategy selection and thorough due diligence on strategies available worldwide. Additionally, the platform enhances risk management and reporting capabilities, including expedited and detailed regulatory reporting.

With its unique combination of systematic strategies and discretionary trading, the DOM Global Macro strategy clearly benefits from Premialab’s state-of-the art data analysis capabilities and computational efficiency. The Portfolio and Risk Managers can thus use a shared dataset for risk analysis and performance decomposition, enhancing the portfolio’s robustness and operational efficiency.

About Premialab
Premialab is the leading independent platform that collaborates with leading investment banks and institutional investors globally, providing data, analytics, and risk solutions for systematic, factor, and multi-asset strategies. With offices in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai and Sydney, the company has forged strong partnerships with the top 18 investment banks, asset managers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies globally.

About Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) is the institutional asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, wholly owned and funded by its partners since its establishment in 1796.

We provide a range of investment solutions to a diverse group of long-term oriented clients. Our heritage, and our combination of the best of conservatism and innovation, keeps us well positioned to create lasting value for our clients. Our investment capabilities span fixed income, convertible bonds, equities, multi-asset, and alternatives. Sustainability is central to our investment philosophy; we believe it is the founding principle of long-term economic and investment outcomes and will drive returns over the long term.

With over 200 investment professionals, we are a global business with a network of 13 offices across Europe, Asia and North America and have assets under management of CHF 64 billion (as at 31 September 2024).

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