But unlike before, when Alexa was offered for free on any Alexa-enabled devices, customers will have to pay Amazon a monthly fee of $19.99 for the revamped voice assistant, which it calls “Alexa+”.

In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.

Amazon is finally pushing ahead into a new era of digital assistants with Alexa+, a that is powered by generative AI capabilities. It is more talkative with natural language capabilities, comes with a ...

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Just as Anthropic teased, Claude 3.7 Sonnet combines reasoning and fast responses into a single model — something OpenAI wants to bring to ChatGPT with GPT-5 later this year. Anthropic is also leaning ...

Anthropic introduced a new artificial intelligence model designed to adapt its reasoning time based on user preferences.

The effort carries significant weight at Amazon, which has plowed billions of dollars into Alexa since its launch in 2014.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy discusses Alexa and AI at a prior event. (GeekWire File Photo /) Amazon unveiled Alexa+, a new service ...

Ten years after Amazon debuted its virtual assistant, Alexa is finally being upgraded for the generative AI age. Meet Alexa+.

Alexa+ will cost $20 a month but will be free for Amazon Prime members. It'll eventually arrive on nearly every Alexa device ...