Amazon is building a ‘more generalized and capable’ LLM to power Alexa, says CEO
VentureBeat April 28, 2023
In what comes as welcome news to long-suffering Alexa users who can’t do much more than set alarms and check the local weather, Amazon is building a “more generalized and capable” large language model (LLM) to power the device, according to comments yesterday from CEO Andy Jassy in the company’s first-quarter earnings call with investors. And just like Google, Microsoft and Meta did in their earnings calls this week, Amazon placed a strong focus on its overall commitment to AI.
In a response to questions from Brian Nowak, managing director at Morgan Stanley, Jassy went into considerable depth about Amazon’s AI efforts around Alexa, which comes in the context of viral generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot...