Amazon will not launch AI update for Alexa for at least a month after its presentation at the event on February 26, According to The Washington Post. The delay is supposedly at least partly because the updated assistant has problems with inexact answers to test questions.
Anonymous Amazon employee said in the store that the update would not come “only on March 31 or later” due to problems. The fresh Alexa can be associated with subscription, with functions such as “the ability to accept personality, cancel conversations, take away or call a taxi” and was originally to be launched this month as a free process, Post He writes, citing internal documents and messages.
The news of the delay appears after months of gossip suggesting that Amazon is trying to implement his plans for “unloading” AI Alexa Generative AI, which in 2023 will take place for the period of months, but still not. Apparently, he was delayed at the end of 2024. An entry among the Beta tester reports regarding tardy, stiff and less utilitarian answers. Amazon did not answer immediately The VergeA request for comment.
It is said that Apple has problems with its own Siri AI update, which was soon to take place on iOS 18.4, but can check that its possibilities restricted or completely delayed on iOS 18.5, coming in May, already in May, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Meanwhile, the digital assistant of the Digital Google is still enjoying a significant advantage in the race to strengthen older smartphones assistants with generative artificial intelligence.