Rabbit retires rabbit intern as OS3 launches free across 5 devices
Rabbit’s own OS3 support page carries two details the launch coverage didn’t report: the system doesn’t switch model providers by itself from one task to the next, and rabbit intern, the company’s second product, is no longer sold on its own.
Rabbit announced the general release of OS3 on 22 September from Santa Monica, California, in a press release calling it an agentic operating system. It runs in the cloud and reaches your machines through a local program called the rabbit agent, which the release says installs with a single command. One account connects up to five devices, and OS3 decides which of them runs a given task.
Windows, Mac and Linux PCs can act as nodes, along with cloud virtual machines, dedicated AI machines and Rabbit’s R1 handheld. You reach OS3 through its web portal, a paired Telegram, iMessage, RCS or SMS, or by speaking to an R1. The Verge noted the R1 isn’t required, and the support page agrees.
Cost is the first place the write-ups and the documents part company. The support page is blunt: OS3 is free, and you pay the model provider you choose according to that provider’s own API pricing. SiliconANGLE described the same arrangement as users having to supply their own subscriptions, which is metered API billing in the FAQ’s telling.
The wider gap is over model swapping. The release says users can swap models without affecting context, memory or skills, and SiliconANGLE read that as a way to save money depending on the complexity of the task at hand. The FAQ is narrower. It says OS3 “does not automatically switch between different model providers on every task”, so sending a cheap job to a cheap model means changing the connected key yourself.
That distinction matters because per-task routing is the whole cost argument for bring-your-own-key, and it’s the trade we walked through in our guide to choosing an entry-tier model over a flagship.
| Detail | Launch coverage | Rabbit’s own documents |
|---|---|---|
| Model switching | Swapping saves cost by task complexity (SiliconANGLE) | No automatic switching between providers on every task (FAQ) |
| Data handling | OS3 won’t store, copy, use or sell your data (The Verge) | Scoped to the rabbit agent and local files; chats and memory sit on Rabbit’s servers |
| One chat thread | A single, continuous chat stream (Wired) | Web, Telegram and r1 can hold separate histories over shared memory (FAQ) |
| rabbit intern | Not mentioned | No longer offered as a standalone public product (FAQ) |
| Total raised | Around $60 million (Lyu, to Wired) | Newsroom announces $20M and $10M rounds, $30M of it by our count |
We’ve spent two and a half years building toward a system you don’t operate, but instead just tell it the outcome.
Jesse Lyu, Founder and CEO, via rabbit’s OS3 announcement
The support page also quietly retires a product. “rabbit intern is no longer being offered as a standalone public product,” it says, adding that capabilities built through intern can continue inside OS3. Rabbit’s newsroom still lists the June 2025 post launching intern as its second product. None of the three launch write-ups mentioned that it’s gone.
The privacy language needs the same care. The Verge wrote that OS3 won’t store, copy, use or sell your data, but the release scopes that to the rabbit agent and to the files on your machine. Conversations and the memory built from them sit on Rabbit’s servers. Prompts and relevant content also pass through those servers en route to your model provider, which then applies its own terms.
Behind the launch sits a far smaller company than its rivals. Lyu told Wired that Rabbit has raised roughly $60 million in total and employs 15 people. He also said it delivered more than 100,000 R1s, with return rates under 5 percent and a 45 to 50 percent hardware margin. Wired reported the R1 is out of production with no R2 planned, and a vibe-coding cyberdeck due within months.
So the thing to watch is whether one conversation really stays one conversation across every channel. Rabbit’s other bet is that the agent lives on hardware you already own, which is the same wager Perplexity made when it launched Portable Computer with no token fees.
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