Amazon’s generative AI-powered Alexa+ will pull from the Amazon Bedrock library of large language models to perform household tasks and answer natural language queries, Amazon announced on. Amazon Alexa competes with Apple’s Siri,

At an event in NYC on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant.

Alexa+, Amazon’s revamped version of Alexa was unveiled Wednesday, bringing the popular voice assistant into the artificial intelligence era.

Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa — Alexa Plus — that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly.

Here are the 7 biggest announcements and demos from today's Amazon event. In a nutshell, Amazon Alexa Plus is Amazon's next-generation assistant that's powered by generative AI. The assistant is a lot more conversational, and can have flowing conversations with you.

Amazon held its Devices and Services event today, during which it made some major announcements. Here's what you can expect from the new Alexa+.