Amazon to relaunch Alexa as an AI agent: Report

Amazon is reportedly readying to revamp their integer dependable adjunct Alexa and relaunch it arsenic an AI agent, according to a study by Financial Times. The institution has been trying to alteration Alexa into a generative AI instrumentality for the past 2 years, it volition inactive instrumentality immoderate clip earlier the caller Alexa is out.

Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s caput of artificial wide quality (AGI) told the outlet that the revamp was inactive facing method challenges similar hallucinations and latency.

The extremity is to crook the integer adjunct into an AI cause personalised for users to execute tasks similar turning the lights connected and disconnected according to slumber cycle.

Alexa has go known arsenic a missed accidental for Amazon aft a erstwhile AI idiosyncratic astatine the portion said that the institution had mislaid retired connected becoming a marketplace person successful conversational AI contempt having a immense magnitude of resources financially.

Meanwhile, it was reported contiguous that OpenAI volition beryllium launching an AI adjunct to vie with the likes of Alexa and Siri.

Published - January 15, 2025 11:27 americium IST