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EngadgetNov 01, 2024
Amazon reportedly bumped back its AI-powered Alexa to next year
If you're wondering what happened to Amazon's new and improved version of its Alexa voice assistant, you're not alone. Bloomberg reports that the new Alexa is still stuck in its developmental phase and Amazon has cut off access to its beta phase including its new "Let's Chat" phase. As a result, a planned late 2024 launch has been pushed back to next year.

The problem seems to be with its large language models (LLMs). The new Alexa is designed to understand more complicated questions from users but it's also more likely to fail doing some of the most basic things the old version could do quite easily like create a timer or operate smart lights, according to a follow up report from The Verge.

Amazon originally planned to unveil its new version of Alexa AI in October but now the timeline has been extended into next year. (As you might have noticed, October has come and gone.) The original timeline planned to premiere the next evolutionary step in Alexa's advancement on October 17 but Amazon decided to pivot and used the date to show off its new line of Kindle ereaders. Then in August, news surfaced that the new Alexa would be powered by Anthropic's Claude AI and come with a monthly subscription fee.



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ResearchBuzzOct 25, 2024
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