Amazon Alexa is getting a paid version as Alexa+ with LLM support where you can have conversation with Alexa. The free version will get to an Ad-supported version and will sell you Amazon products and the Alexa paid version. https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Amazon-said-to-introduce-paid-version-of-Alexa/61289482
What are they smoking? I want some of that and then some more compensation to even think a paid Alexa idea is even feasible.
Need to layoff Alexa product team.
Empire strikes back
Or should I say empire builders strike back
World’s most useless product (Used to work in Alexa). Also, the most toxic people i worked with especially my ex manager
Those who found utility in alexa over last 8y are happy with what it does. Others don't use it. LLM based alexa will be very expensive to Amazon. it will be slow and riddled with hallucinations. It will take another year to make it work, at an enormous effort. I am skeptical the subscription model will work, anyway. Alexa is supposed to stop losing money and they will likely achieve it by firing another 50% of the team. Imho instead they should double down on profit streams (e.g. alexa auto) and ktlo everything else.
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I would be applying like crazy if I was in the Alexa org right now 😂 This is a doomed to fail last ditch effort at monetization before shutting down Alexa all together. Mark my words, in 5 years Alexa will have been shutdown.
at this point i think alexa laidoff+URA crowd is more or equal as number of people in that org.
Interesting. Alexa feeds hundreds of research scientists who are doing nothing over the years. It will shut down if they still don’t axe these vampires.