Amazon Alexa virtual assistant
Alexa is a 'virtual assistant' developed by Amazon uses natural language processing and speech recognition technologies to enable users to ask questions and receive answers, get traffic alerts, set alarms, make lists, play music, and other things. Launched in 2014 and available in multiple countries and languages , Alexa was first used in Amazon's Echo and Echo Dot smart speaker s, and later in its Echo Studio and other products. In August 2024, Amazon told Reuters that the next version of Alexa will be primarily powered by Anthropic's Claude large language model. The company says the next version of the system will not be free. Amazon’s devices business lost over USD 25 billion from 2017 to 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal . Virtual assistant A virtual assistant (VA) is a software agent that can perform a range of tasks or services for a user based on user input such as commands or questions, including verbal ones. Source: Wikipedia 🔗
- Organisation involved
- Amazon; Alison Hall-O’Neil; Kristin Livdahl; Megan Neitzel; Oliver Haberstroh; Steve Altes
- Product, system or model
- Amazon Alexa
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