Rivian Assistant is here!! (Update: not quite yet) (Update 2: it's here!!)

[Honey]

An you still use Amazon music?

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[windblowlc]

No phone as a key with the loaner that I can figure out - I'm using a key card and paired my phones Bluetooth for phone & audio.

Were you able to set up your phone as a key in your loaner? I’ve got a gen2 R1S right now. I hope I get to check out the new stack.

I just came back from a service loaner with my phone as a key. Rivian just rolled out this feature. They will set your phone up with an invite so you can use it as a key now.

 

[Mousetrap]

I just came back from a service loaner with my phone as a key. Rivian just rolled out this feature. They will set your phone up with an invite so you can use it as a key now.

Seriously?! That's awesome! I'll send a message to the team and see if he can set me up.

 

[mrniceguytoo]

I just came back from a service loaner with my phone as a key. Rivian just rolled out this feature. They will set your phone up with an invite so you can use it as a key now.

unfortunately not at all service centers offer the phone option as of yet. My key card failed with my loaner and I had to go back to the service center to have them give me another. They could not push the “phone” option to me. I also do not have the new assistant either. I’ve got the loaner for at least another week so we’ll see if new assistant gets pushed to it.

 

[Mousetrap]

An you still use Amazon music?

I do not, I use Spotify. Or occasionally the radio.

 

[Mousetrap]

I have seen the demos from last year. What is it like for navigating, changing temperature, general speed of reaction?

Changing temperature and vents was great. I have no complaints about reaction/response speed - check this out:

That said, in the few times I tried it this evening, it struggled with navigation & interfacing with the map. I tried asking it where the closest Home Depot is, to navigate to Home Depot, and a few other things - it'd recognize what I said properly (even with music on & full AC!), respond (on screen but not verbally) that it was searching maps, and then eventually would time out. I tried it a bunch of times within about an hour this evening and couldn't get it to work right. I'm sure they'll get it working right in short order. Overall, the entire experience has been super-impressive besides the nav experience.

I'm REALLY hoping it comes to my gen1 just like this!

 

[3wisemonkeyz]

Does it handle artist and song queries well on Spotify?

 

[iforbes]

I have to assume this rolls out the same day R2 deliveries start.

 

[DuoRivian]

I have to assume this rolls out the same day R2 deliveries start.

That was my assumption to that this comes out with the new UX in early June in time for deliveries in late June.

 

[TexasBob]

This is the Gemini backend? Does it link to your personal gemini account?

 

[VandalSibs]

This is the Gemini backend? Does it link to your personal gemini account?

Rivian's story page from the AI event:

Rivian’s in-house agentic framework enables the assistant to effortlessly work with third-party apps, like your calendar. Ask about your day, navigate to your next appointment, or even reschedule a meeting while you drive.

Makes me think that if there's any trace of some other company's model in there, it's gonna be so behind-the-scenes that linking to say, a Google account won't do anything. It might work like Tesla did and have access to your calendar, messages, etc. thru the app on your phone.

Or I could be entirely wrong about all of this.

 

[mkhuffman]

Makes me think that if there's any trace of some other company's model in there, it's gonna be so behind-the-scenes that linking to say, a Google account won't do anything. It might work like Tesla did and have access to your calendar, messages, etc. thru the app on your phone.

From a data privacy perspective, I really like the idea of an independent AI only for the vehicle. Even if it is based on a public model, I think they said it will work off-line, so likely the only data sharing will be when the model needs updates from Rivian servers.

I really hate the idea of my vehicle linking to Gemini or another public AI service. I might be OK with Grok in a Tesla, since it is already part of the Tesla ecosystem, but Rivian's disconnected solution is superior IMO. In fact, this alone makes me want to stay with Rivian for all my future vehicles.

Can't wait to see how they improve the R1 in the Gen3!!!

 

[Mousetrap]

This is the Gemini backend? Does it link to your personal gemini account?

I haven't seen a way to do that or any indication of it yet

 

[Noplacelikeloam]

From a data privacy perspective, I really like the idea of an independent AI only for the vehicle. Even if it is based on a public model, I think they said it will work off-line, so likely the only data sharing will be when the model needs updates from Rivian servers.

I really hate the idea of my vehicle linking to Gemini or another public AI service. I might be OK with Grok in a Tesla, since it is already part of the Tesla ecosystem, but Rivian's disconnected solution is superior IMO. In fact, this alone makes me want to stay with Rivian for all my future vehicles.

Can't wait to see how they improve the R1 in the Gen3!!!

Nope, people will continue to throw all their personal data into an LLM black hole assuming that it isnt being harvested for some other purpose. Oh well.

 

[VandalSibs]

I think they said it will work off-line, so likely the only data sharing will be when the model needs updates from Rivian servers.

I think this is the case for R2 and beyond (R1 Gen 3, R3, etc.) but not R1 Gen 2 or Gen 1 - they share the same infotainment processing stack (or really similar) and so will rely on off-vehicle compute. That being said, I don't remember hearing anything about it requiring Connect+ to function.

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