February 27th.AmazonYesterday (February 26), the company announced the launch of a new generation of AI Assistant Alexa+ that not only allows for more natural conversations and smarter understanding of user needs.It also provides personalized services to help users with a variety of tasks, covering a wide range of areas such as entertainment, learning, home management, and summaries of complex topics.
Alexa+ supports more natural and fluid conversations, accurately understanding and responding to user intent even when expressions are incomplete or colloquial.
Alexa+ is more mobile, based on Amazon Bedrock's Large Language Model (LLM) and the concept of "experts," and can orchestrate tens of thousands of services and devices, such as controlling a smart home, booking a restaurant, playing music, ordering takeout, setting reminders, and more.
Alexa+ learns information about a user's purchase history, music preferences, shipping address, and more, and provides personalized suggestions based on that information. Users can also proactively inform Alexa+ of family recipes, important dates, and more so that Alexa+ can provide more personalized service.
Alexa+ will proactively help when necessary, such as suggesting early travel during traffic jams or alerting users when an item they want to buy is on sale.
Alexa+ works seamlessly with the more than 600 million existing Alexa devices to provide a smarter home management experience, such as playing music in different rooms, checking on package deliveries and more.
Alexa+ will be available for early access in the U.S. in the coming weeks and will be rolled out to other regions, with priority given to Echo Show 8, 10, 15, and 21 owners. Alexa+ is free for all Amazon Prime members, while non-members pay $19.99 per month (note: currently about $145).
