Everything announced at Alexa+ AI event on Amazon
Amazon was holding his own First major product event of the year on Wednesday and, as expectedIt was largely (well, entirely) for Alex. The company first announced its next generation, AI-feeding voice assistant In 2023, but technical problems Forced Amazon to delay its official disclosure and launch. Amazon’s hardware chief, Panos Panay and his devices and services team were at the event to show Alexa+.
Here is a breakthrough of everything Amazon announced at its first 2025 product event:
Alexa+
After many (and many) boring shaking of generative AI by Amazon CEO Andy Jassi at the event on Wednesday, Panay took the microphone to start sharing the actual news. Alexa+ is the name of the modernized voice assistant of the company. The company will begin to unfold it next month, starting with the Echo Show devices. Alexa+ costs $ 20 a month, but Prime members get access without additional costs. Currently, Prime costs $ 15 a month, so we have to wonder if the price increase is coming there.
Alexa+ is designed to be more talkative and useful for compatible devices. He can remember your preferences, such as the types of food you like and dislike, and she relies on your recipe requests. Alexa+ can find your tone and mood. In a live demonstration, it seems that he is trying to help Panai stay calm during his performance.
Panai claims that, among other things, smart home management "has transformed with Alexa+." You can use the voice assistant to move music from an Echo device to another speaker or TV or move on to a specific scene in a movie that is on a first video.
Amazon claims that the upgraded voice assistant can answer questions about footage captured with ring cameras, photos taken with echo shows, emails, files like PDFS, hand -written notes, your calendar, upcoming sports games and more. Alexa+ can use a service called Suno (which Recording labels are sued To scrape your music to train your AI modes) to generate personalized songs on the go.
Much as Openai has for ChatgptAmazon has partnered with a number of news organizations in order to answer questions about different topics with up -to -date information. Other partners include Uber for ordering a vehicle, reservation option for restaurant reservation, Spotify, Sonos, Samsung, Xbox, Tidal, Dyson, Nasa and "tens of thousands" More. There is Amazon Fresh Integration to order grocery and you can see what is in your cart on your screen.
Elsewhere, Alexa+ has some features that are obviously comfortable for children. A voice assistant can use Genai to tell children personalized stories based on what they want to hear. Can also answer questions they have (hopefully without any of these incorrect or false results that Fun Alexa+).
Panai led to the announcement and demonstrations, noting that Alexa seems to be disappointing to use, but Genai can help mitigate these annoys. He added that the AI ​​chatbot won’t be enough for Alexon’s vision for Alex and that people need something easy to use, which allows them to "In fact, take action." With Alexa+Panai claims that "Intimidation factor" It’s no longer. Of course!
Alexa.com and new phone applications
There are other ways to access Alexa+other than an echo device. Amazon revealed that you can Use the upgraded voice assistant via alexa.comthat seems very much Basic during writing. Seriously, the screenshot above is all that is on the website, which looks like it is knocked together for five minutes. This will surely change soon, as the demonstration of the event shows that you will be able to enter requests. Amazon also updates Alexa iOS and Android apps to include access to a modernized assistant.
New devices
There was a squat on this front. Amazon was widely expected to introduce a new hardware to go with Alexa+, such as Fresh Echo Buds, Echo Speakers, Smart Displays, etc.
But no! The event was related to the upgraded voice assistant, which, at least for starters, requires a screen like an echo show, a smartphone or a computer to use. However, the company says Alexa+ will work on almost every compatible device it has released.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/everything-announted-at-amazons-olexa-ai-event-164613305.html?src=rs
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