Known internally as “Banyan,” a reference to the sprawling ficus trees, the project would represent the first major overhaul of the voice assistant since it was introduced in 2014.
Multiple people injured, including one officer, after mass shooting outside Arkansas grocery store: reportsto include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.
The company’s plans for Alexa including pricing and release dates could be altered or canceled depending on the progress of Project Banyan, the people cautioned.'Zombie mortgages' come back to haunt thousands of homeowners now facing foreclosure For Amazon, keeping up with rivals in generative AI is critical as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have garnered more favorable attention for their so-called chatbots that can respond almost instantaneously with full sentences to complicated prompts or queries.CEO Andy Jassy has taken a personal interest in seeing Alexa reinvigorated. In an April letter to shareholders, Jassy promised a “more intelligent and capable Alexa,” without providing additional details.
Accessed primarily through Amazon TVs and Echo speaker devices, Alexa is popular mostly for setting timers, quickly accessing the weather, playing songs or answering simple questions. In the demonstration, Alexa lost its robotic tone and answered questions like the start time for a football game. “You can now have a near-human-like conversations with Alexa,” promised Dave Limp, Amazon’s hardware chief at the time, who has since left the company.Apple is pushing ahead with its own AI strategy, including updating its Siri voice activated software embedded in iPhones to include more conversational answers.
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