It was only a matter of time until Amazon stepped up the competition to produce a better voice-driven artificial intelligence (AI) experience than a field of serious competitors, and the eCommerce behemoth has come out swinging with new products and bigger ambitions in the works.
The news is communicated by a sequence of announcements and other signals. Amazon announced four new Alexa-powered Echo smart products — the Echo Pop, Echo Show 5, Echo Show 5 Kids, and Echo Buds — in a blog post on Wednesday.
“These new devices provide customers with more options and utility at an incredible value.” “And, as with every Echo device we’ve shipped, they’ll only get better as we add even more generative AI-powered Alexa experiences throughout the year,” Prasad added.
“These new devices provide customers with more options and utility at an incredible value.” “And, as with every Echo device we’ve shipped, they’ll only get better as we add even more generative AI-powered Alexa experiences throughout the year,” Prasad continued.
Amazon senior vice president of devices and services Dave Limp told Bloomberg on the same day that the Alexa digital assistant “has been using a home-built set of large language models — the foundational networks that enable ChatGPT and rival technologies — to help summarize text gathered from the web and make Alexa more conversant in various languages,” adding that new ChatGPT-type features will “roll out incrementally.”
