"Alexa+, Amazon's upgraded, generative AI-powered version of its Alexa assistant, is available to all U.S. customers as of Wednesday. The company said that the AI feature will be free to Prime members across devices. Meanwhile, anyone can use Alexa+ for free via the Alexa website or mobile app, with some limitations."
""We have tens of millions of customers using Alexa+ now, and now we're going to make it available to all Prime members...Prime members enjoy unlimited access - it's basically a paid tier level of access that we're including in Prime now," notes Daniel Rausch, VP of Alexa and Echo at Amazon, in an interview with TechCrunch."
"As an AI assistant, Alexa+ can carry on natural language conversations that include follow-up questions and back-and-forth chat. In addition to performing smart home tasks, scheduling timers, or offering news and weather, as before, the new assistant can do most things that other AI chatbots can do - like planning an itinerary for a trip, updating a shared calendar, finding and saving recipes to a library, making movie recommendations, helping with homework, exploring a topic, and more."
Amazon launched Alexa+, an upgraded generative AI version of Alexa now available to all U.S. customers. Prime members receive unlimited free access across devices; non-Prime users can access Alexa+ for free via the Alexa website or mobile app with limits. Alexa+ is model agnostic, running Amazon foundation models alongside third-party models. The assistant supports natural, multi-turn conversations and expands capabilities beyond smart-home and informational tasks to itinerary planning, calendar updates, recipe saving, recommendations, homework help, and exploratory chat. Integrations with services like Ticketmaster, Uber, OpenTable, Expedia, Thumbtack, Yelp, Angi, Square, Fodor's, and Suno enable more complex, agentic task completion.
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