Yesterday, Reuters She told the story With the header “Weeks after launching Alex+ Ai Amazon, a secret: where are the users?”, In which he described his difficulties in detail with the location of first -hand relationships using assistants improved by AI online. The Verge When asked Amazon about history, and the company replied that the idea that Alexa Plus is not available is “simply wrong”.
Here is full-and rather strongly formulated! – a statement on this matter, delivered by the spokesman Amazon Eric Sveum via e -mail to The Verge:
It is simply bad to say that Alexa+ is not available to customers – that the claim is false. Hundreds of thousands of customers have access to Alex+ and we invite more customers who asked for early access.
Sveum also made available the following screenshot of what the E -Mail invitation should look like.
Alexa Plus is a generative version of the Amazon version of Alexa, which she announced in February, is free for Amazon Prime subscribers or $ 19.99 per month.
One sec Reuters He does not claim that Alexa Plus is not yet available to customers, he quotes an analyst who said: “It seems that no one who really has it.”
Outlet also informed that his efforts to find real Alexa Plus users appeared empty, writing that “dozens of information services, YouTube, Tiktok, X, Blues and Meta Instagram and Facebook, as well as Amazon vibration and reviews of the Echo of voice devices were searched. That they used Alex Plus, but “they did not provide Reuters with strenuous evidence, and their identity cannot be confirmed.”
Still, Engadget Reported today That a wave of E -Maili came out on Friday, encouraging Amazon Alexa users to try Alexa Plus. She also on sale informed that Amazon spokesman said that “hundreds of thousands” tried an assistant.
Amazon began to introduce an early access program to several customers at the end of March. At that time, this was missing, such as the possibility of taking to take out from Grubhub by means of a conversation context or identifying family members and reminding about domestic responsibilities. The website on the Amazon website notes that some functions are still “soon”, such as the ability to access Alex Plus in a web browser or on the Fire TV or Amazon tablet. The company said that it priority treats those who are the owners of some echo showing the devices over others.