Alexa

July 16 - Tech media outlet Windows Central published a blog post today (July 16) reporting that Amazon underestimated the amount of work that would be required to go live with the web-based version of Alexa, and as a result decided to delay going live with the service until after July 31st. 1AI previously reported that Amazon planned to launch a web-based version of its Alexa virtual assistant, known as Alexa.com, in mid-June this year at an event in February. Newly disclosed documents show that Amazon is actively pushing to get the service off the ground internally, but from the details that have come to light so far...

February 27 news, Amazon yesterday (February 26) released an announcement, announced the launch of a new generation of AI assistant Alexa +, not only can carry out a more natural dialogue, more intelligent understanding of user needs, but also provide personalized services to help users to complete a variety of tasks, covering a variety of areas, such as entertainment, learning, home management, complex topics summary and so on. Alexa+ supports more natural and fluent conversations, and can accurately understand and respond to the user's intent, even if the expression is incomplete or colloquial. Alexa+ is more actionable, based on Amazon...

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon plans to show off an upgraded version of its artificial intelligence technology-based Alexa at an event on Feb. 26, but the upgrade isn't expected to officially launch until at least March 31 or later, according to the Washington Post. One of the reasons for this delay is that the upgraded Alexa had problems giving inaccurate answers in tests. An anonymous Amazon employee revealed that the launch of the upgrade had to be delayed due to these issues. According to the Washington Post, which cited internal documents and sources, the upgraded Alexa was originally scheduled to...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) - Today, Amazon sent out invitations to an artificial intelligence-themed event, which will take place on Feb. 26th. According to Reuters, Amazon plans to unveil its next-generation Alexa generative AI service at the event. Since its launch in 2014, Alexa has become one of the most widely used voice assistants. However, with the proliferation of generative AI offerings such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, Alexa is falling behind. 1AI notes that upgrading Alexa...

November 1 news, according to foreign media The Verge reports, Amazon's new version of Alexa based on artificial intelligence reinvention of the official version has been delayed until next year. Amazon first announced the new version of Alexa in September last year, which is mainly based on the current voice assistant to obtain AI large model capabilities (similar to the addition of "Apple brand AI" Apple Intelligence Siri), the previous user can call the new Alexa through the Echo speaker. Previously, users could call the new Alexa through their Echo speaker to chat with it, but now Amazon has quietly...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon's business unit focused on voice assistant Alexa lost as much as $25 billion (currently about 182.1 billion yuan) between 2017 and 2021. Although Amazon claims to have sold more than 500,000 Alexa devices, including Echo smart speakers, Kindle e-book readers, etc., Alexa has been difficult to make a profit. Amazon has reportedly adopted a looser financial management of the Alexa hardware department, prioritizing innovation and long-term benefits. The company once stated that…