Amazon finally announced the productive artificial intelligence -supported Alexa Plus, which has been expected for a long time. Developed as a rival to Google’s Chat Robot, this new generation of voice assistant aims to significantly improve the user experience in areas such as smart home control and information access.

The new Alexa Plus is coming beyond being an assistant, and many new especially coming to make users’ daily work easier. You can now ask Alexa to shop or send events invitations to your friends. Moreover, by remembering your personal information, you will be able to make suggestions according to details such as your nutritional preferences or movie tastes.

Amazon announced that Alexa Plus will independently be presented with a monthly subscription of $ 19.99. However, this service will be free for Amazon Prime members. Considering that Prime is $ 14.99 per month or $ 139 annually, it can be said that Alexa Plus is very advantageous for Prime members.

Alexa Plus will be compatible with almost all Alexa -supported devices, especially the Echo Show 8, 10, 15 and 21 models. Amazon, within the scope of the free early access program will be offered to users next month announced. Amazon also said that it creates a new Alexa application and web platform for use with the new assistant.

Voice assistant or visual artificial intelligence?

Alexa Plus, not only limited to voice commands, gains visual capabilities. The device can take photos, analyze, read documents and make sense of content. For example, you can ask a document to analyze certain items or to create a travel plan.

In addition, Alexa has now been developed to make your conversations more fluent. Although the word awakening continues to be “Alexa ,, you will not have to give a constant command after the conversation starts. This assistant, which is supported by artificial intelligence, will be able to understand the ongoing dialogues in natural language.

According to Amazon’s statement, Alexa Plus is also gaining new capabilities to control smart home devices. Instead of just opening and off the lights or managing cameras, it can automatically create certain routines. For example, in line with the images taken from a smart camera, you will be able to tell you whether your pet is out.

The experience of listening to music becomes smarter. You can now make Alexa find the music you want by singing the atmosphere or part of the song, not a specific song. You will also be able to ask him to jump on a certain stage while watching movies. Therefore, the new Alexa is not only a voice assistant but also a multi -mod artificial intelligence.

The appearance also changed

Alexa Plus, a new generation of artificial intelligence assistant, Alexa Plus, takes the user experience to a different level with visual and interactive items. When Echo talks on devices with display, a blue rod fluctuates at the bottom of the screen and represents the “Alexa itself”. Amazon calls these animations and icons “Alexicons” and says they are designed to reflect the assistant’s personality.

Alexa Plus can fulfill the productive artificial intelligence functions that we are familiar with thanks to the large language models (LLM). However, the Alexa Plus model works as an independent system. In other words, not only the Nova model developed by Amazon’s own, but also the artificial intelligence models of third -party companies such as Anthropic. Thus, it performs tasks by choosing the most suitable artificial intelligence model according to need.

Your daily information and entertainment is your source

Amazon announced that Alexa Plus has cooperated with large media organs to understand and analyze financial markets, sports and current events. These include great news sources such as The Associated Press, Politico, The Washington Post and Reuters. This looks like a good feature for those who buy daily news updates.

During a demo of the company, Alexa Plus was requested to information about Boston Red Sox and followed the team’s matches and ticket status. Moreover, Alexa Plus can buy tickets on behalf of the user. Such automatic transactions are not limited to sports tickets. According to Amazon, Alexa Plus, Uber Eats, Sonos, Wyze, Zoom, Xbox, Plex, Dyson, Bose, Group, Group, Levoid and Tickets will facilitate many daily operations.

What Alexa Plus can do is not limited to these. Amazon announced that he cooperated with AI music manufacturer Suno about artificial intelligence and music production. During the demo, Alexa Plus was shown to create a country -style song about a Boda cat. Users will be able to make music more interactive by producing songs in the theme they want.

Although artificial intelligence Alexa was first announced in September 2023, it is now here and functional. However, when it was first released in 2014, Alexa, almost unbeatable, has to fight strong competitors such as Google Gemini, Chatgpt and Apple’s AI -backed Siri, which has not yet fully seated. Amazon’s biggest advantage at this point is that it is widely used in smart speakers.