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“Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu on the Power of Startups: Thrive Quickly or Risk Failure, But Never Give Up”

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Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death… the death of the company, at least. Rabbit’s r1, the pocket AI assistant that attracted considerable hype after its debut at CES, is certainly an original proposal. “We immediately tried using super-prompts to get this language model to do things, and the result was very miserable,” he recalled. “I mean, the first lesson I ever learned from Y Combinator two years ago, is that 99% of startups will die. I think it’s good to have this level of competition that’s only going to help us grow faster, or die faster, which is the nature of startups.