Still, analysts and technology executives say interest in the digital assistant has plateaued as users reach the limits of its capabilities or give up trying new things. Read more: Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-Style Search to Its Online StoreĪmazon doesn’t break out quarterly or annual sales for its devices, though Limp said Alexa usage was up 35% from the prior year and that shopping via the assistant increased 40%. The company’s devices are “in hundreds of millions of homes,” he said. The majority of those are Echo speakers and Fire TV streaming sticks and televisions, Limp said. The company also said more than 500 million Alexa-powered devices have been sold by Amazon and other companies. The buds let users listen to music and summon Alexa on the go.
A new version of Amazon’s Echo Buds loses the noise-cancelling feature of previous editions, but, at $50, comes in at less than half the price.An updated edition of the Echo Show 5 Kids comes with a year of Amazon’s Kids+ subscription with age-appropriate audiobooks, videos and games.Amazon says the $90 speaker is 20% faster than the prior generation and has clearer sound. A revamped Echo Show 5, which pairs Alexa with a 5-inch screen.The semi-spherical device, which sells for $40, comes with technology borrowed from Amazon’s eero router subsidiary that can extend the range of home Wi-Fi The Echo Pop, which takes the company’s spherical, fabric-covered Echo Dot smart speaker and slices it in half.“It’s not years away, but there are some things that we have to solve.”Īmazon on Wednesday announced four updated Alexa devices:
New, more conversational capabilities will “roll out incrementally,” he said. introduced an updated slate of Echo devices and pledged to bring ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence to Alexa-powered gadgets.įor more than a year the digital assistant has been using a home-built set of large language models - the foundational networks that enable ChatGPT and rival technologies - to help summarize text gathered from the web and make Alexa more conversant in various languages, Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president of Devices & Services, said in an interview.
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