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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hints at an ‘agentic’ Alexa

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hinted at an improved, "agentic" version of the company's Alexa assistant during Amazon's Q3 2024 earnings call.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today hinted at an improved, “agentic” version of the company’s Alexa assistant — one that could take actions on a user’s behalf. Jassy added that Amazon continues to “re-architect the brain” of Alexa with “a new set of foundation models” that the company plans to reveal “in the near future.” Amazon, which first announced that it’d revamp Alexa with generative AI technologies in 2023, is said to be replacing its own Alexa-powering models with Anthropic’s after encountering technical challenges.

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