CEO Andy Jassi said on the company’s earnings call on Thursday that Amazon’s upgraded Digital Assistant has rolled out more than 100,000 users run by generic AI, Alexa+.
While it is far from 600 million Alexa devices, the company is making some progress on the rollout of Alexa+, which was first unveiled in February. At that time, Amazon said that Alexa+ would roll into the waves in the coming months.
Amazon’s new digital assistant aims to let users talk in more natural style with it, and eventually agentic abilities that allow it to use a third party app from the user. Alexa+ must be able to generate basic reactions on flight, much more like openi -mode in openi’s chat and Google’s Gemini, instead of pre -determined reactions of the old Alexa and Siri system.
However, as the Washington Post reported at the time of launch, today Alexa+ who is rolling out has some major features that the company demoned in February. The report stated that, at the time of launch, Alexa+ did not have the ability to use third party apps such as Grub, generates a gold story for children, or churning a gift idea. It is not clear when those features will be made in Alexa+.
Jassi said on the call, “We have a lot of functionality that we plan to add in the coming months.”
During his initial comments, Jassi claimed that Alexa+ is one of the first action-oriented AI agents for consumers. But he said that this technique is still “primitive” and “wrong”. Amazon’s CEO stated that currently, most multi-step AI agents have a low accuracy rate between 30% and 60%. Jassy has set a target for the company’s web-bruising agent that gives strength to the Alexa+, Nova Act to achieve 90% accuracy in this domain.
The rollout of Amazon of Alexa+ is moving faster than the rollout of its new, LLM-Interested Siri Apple. When asked about Apple’s delay in the new bell on Thursday’s earnings call, which happened to Amazon together, CEO Tim Cook said the company “needs more time to complete the work.”
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Along with the road to the supercharged Legacy Digital Assistants, Apple and Amazon have allegedly participated in Snag and Delay for the supercharged Legacy Digital Assistants. Some of the largest hiccups are around using devices and obtaining LLM to integrate with other systems. Doing so allows Alexa and Siri to complete practical functions such as setting timer and reading lessons, but implementing it has proved to be more difficult than expected.
