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Alexa at 10: Amazon’s assistant is a winner and a failure
On The Vergecast: assessing Amazon’s voice assistant, one decade in.
Ten years ago this week, on November 6th, 2014, Amazon launched the Echo and the smart speaker era. The Verge ’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to talk about the reasons for that surprise 2014 launch, the explosive growth of the Alexa ecosystem, and the challenges Amazon and everyone else faced in trying to figure out what these smart speakers could really do. We talk a lot about what the so-called “ Remarkable Alexa ” upgrade might mean for the virtual assistant, as Amazon shifts its underlying technology to be based on large language models and generative AI.
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