Amazon’s improved digital assistant powered by Generative AI, Alexa+, has rolled out for more than 100,000 users, CEO Andy Jassy said on Thursday during the company’s profit call.
Although that is far removed from the 600 million Alexa devices that are available, the company makes some progress in the rollout of Alexa+, which was first unveiled in February. At that time, Amazon said that Alexa+ would be rolled out in waves in the coming months.
The new digital assistant from Amazon wants users to talk to it in a more natural style and ultimately have agent skills with which it can use apps on behalf of a user. Alexa+ should be able to generate original reactions immediately, just like the speech modes in OpenAi’s Chatgpt and Google’s Gemini, instead of the predetermined reactions from the old Alexa and Siri systems.
As the Washington Post reported to the launch, the Alexa+ is rolled out today today There is no of the most important functions that the company demonstrated in February. The report notes that Alexa+ did not have the opportunity to use third -party apps such as Grubhub at the launch, to generate a story before bedtime or brainstorming a gift idea. It is unclear when those functions will achieve it in Alexa+.
“We have much more functionality that we are planning to add in the coming months,” Jassy said during the call.
During his opening commentary, Jassy claimed that Alexa+ is one of the first action-oriented AI agents for consumers. But he noted that this technology is still quite ‘primitive’ and ‘inaccurate’. Currently, most Multi-Step AI agents have a low accuracy rate between 30% and 60%, said the Amazon CEO. Jassy set a goal for the web brows agent of the company that reaches Alexa+, Nova Act, the accuracy of 90% in this domain.
Amazon’s rollout from Alexa+ seems to be progressing faster than Apple’s rollout of his new, LLM-driven Siri. When demanding the new Siri retrisions on Apple’s Thursday call, which at the same time took place with Amazon’s, said CEO Tim Cook that the company needed “More time to complete the work. “
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Along the way to fill Legacy Digital Assistants with Generative AI, both Apple and Amazon reportedly encountered nozzles and delays. Some of the biggest hiccups are about getting LLMS to use and integrate tools with other systems. This enables Alexa and Siri to complete practical tasks, such as setting timers and reading texts, but implementing them has proved more difficult than expected.
