Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI
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Summary
Amazon has announced the launch of an updated version of its voice assistant, Alexa, dubbed Alexa+, which uses a technique known as “model mixing”
Alexa+ blends artificial intelligence (AI) agents and uses knowledge gained from the wider Amazon ecosystem to answer questions and complete tasks.
It currently runs on Amazon’s Nova models and those from AI firm Anthropic, with the latter’s CPO Mike Krieger describing the new version of Alexa as “biased more toward [Anthropic’s] technology”.
Model mixing, also known as model routing, allows users to select the appropriate AI model for individual queries.
It is hoped the new version of Alexa will be a more capable and smarter home voice assistant due to the technology advances.