026 - Another Revolution Coming Like Chat-GPT

Amazon just unveiled Alexa+, its highly-anticipated next-generation digital assistant completely rebuilt with AI — promising more conversational interactions, personalization, and agentic capabilities for everyday tasks.

The details:

Alexa+ can connect and leverage multiple LLMs, including Amazon's Nova and Anthropic's Claude, choosing the best model for each task at hand.

The revamped assistant can perform complex agentic tasks like booking reservations, ordering groceries, purchasing concert tickets, and more.

Other features include document analysis, remembering user preferences, maintaining conversation context, and integration with hundreds of services.

It will cost $19.99 monthly but comes free with Amazon Prime membership, with early access rolling out in the U.S. next month.

Why it matters:

Legacy voice assistants like Alexa and Siri have lagged massively behind the AI boom, but this release will finally put advanced voice agents in the homes of 100M+ Prime members — potentially triggering another ‘ChatGPT moment’ for consumers outside the tech bubble (assuming it goes better than Apple Intelligence).” You live in a wondrous time. - Love, Granny & Paw

Source: The Rundown , February 27. 2025
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