Amazon kept his own The first major product event year on Wednesday and, As expectedIt was largely (well, completely) about Alex. The company first announced its next generation, Ay-young voice assistant Back in 2023, but Technical problems Amazon forced his official discovery and deployment. The head of the equipment Amazon, Panos Panay and his team of devices and services were at the event to show Alexa+.
Here is a brief presentation of everything that Amazon announced at the first event on the product of 2025:
Alex+
After many (and many) boring vagabonds about generative artificial intelligence from Amazon General Andy Jacked at an event on Wednesday, Panai took a microphone to start sharing real news. Alexa+ is the name of the updated voice assistant to the company. The company will begin to deploy it next month, starting with Echo Show devices. Alexa+ costs $ 20 a month, but Prime participants get access without additional costs. Currently, Prime costs $ 15 a month, so we should ask ourselves whether there will be a price increase there.
Alexa+ is designed for more conversational and useful for compatible devices. This may remember your preferences, such as the types of food that you like and do not like, and this takes into account them in your recipes. Alexa+ can find your tone and mood. In a living demonstration, he, in the visible, tried to help Panay preserve calmness during his presentation.
Panai argued that, among other things, the management of the smart house “transformed from Alexa+”. You can use a voice assistant, for example, move music from an echo to another speaker or TV or jump on a certain scene in the film, which is located on Prime Video.
Amazon claims that an updated voice assistant can answer questions about personnel removed using ring cameras, photos taken using Echo Show, emails, files such as PDF files, handwritten notes, your calendar, upcoming sports games and much more. Alexa+ can use a service called Suno (which Cellular labels sued the court To scrap their music for teaching his modes) to create user songs on the fly.
Very how Openai has for ChatGPTAmazon collaborates with a number of news organizations in order to answer questions about various topics with current information. Other partners are Uber for ordering trips, Opentable for booking restaurant, Spotify, Sonos, Samsung, Xbox, Tidal, Dyson, NASA and tens of thousands more. To order for ordering products, there is Amazon Fresh Integration, and you can see what is in your cart on the screen.
In another place, Alexa+ has some features that are apparently friendly for children. Genai can use Genai to tell children individual stories based on what they want to hear about. It can also answer the questions that they have (I hope, without any incorrect or false results that Delay of Alexa+)
Panai brought into an ad and demonstration, noting that Alexa, as in it, could be disappointing in use, but Genai can help soften these irritations. He added that AI Chatbot will not be sufficient for the vision of Amazon for Alexa and that people need something simple to use, which allows them to “actually act.” With Alexa+, Panai claimed that Genea is no longer a “intimidation factor”. Certainly!
There are other ways to access Alexa+, except on Echo Device. Amazon said you can Use a modernized voice assistant via alexa.comwhich looks Very Basic at the time of writing. Seriously, the screenshot above is all that is on the web site that looks like it was shot down together in five minutes. This will probably change in the near future, as the demonstration at the event indicates that you can enter requests. Amazon also updates the alexa iOS and Android applications to enable access to the modernized assistant.
New devices
There were squats on this front. In general, it was expected that Amazon would introduce new equipment to agree with Alexa+, for example, fresh echo -beams, speakers of echo, intellectual displays, and so on.
But no! The event was dedicated to an updated voice assistant, who, at least for starters, requires a screen, such as an echo -show, a smartphone or a computer for use. Nevertheless, the company says that Alexa+ will work on almost every released device compatible with ALEXA.