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Amazon says Alexa+ is ‘model agnostic’


Amazon says that the new Alexa, Alexa+, is powered by a "model agnostic" system that's always using the best AI model for any given task.

Amazon says that it’s partnered with publications including Time, Reuters, and the Associated Press to supply info for answers related to news, financial markets, and more. “Alexa takes a couple minutes to navigate a website [and it] comes back and tells me it’s done,” Rausch said. Kyle Wiggers is a senior reporter at TechCrunch with a special interest in artificial intelligence.

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