Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

Amazon To make the new Alexa Voice Assistant more effective, the agent to repeat the flagship voice assistant agentic capabilities and browser use betting and mixing the model mixing.

This new Alexa emphasizes Alexa + to be rebranded and Amazon “doing more.” For example, now a new book of your favorite author or your favorite artist can appeal to users if it is a new book in the city and even offers to buy tickets. Alexa + instructions and “experts” via “experts” to perform tasks such as “experts”, “experts” and “Where is the nearest pizza place to the office?” Will my co-workers like? – If you think it is to reserve. ”

In other words, Alexa + AI agents learn from the largest amazon ecosystem to become a more skilled and smarter home voice assistant from the Amazon ecosystem from the computer use and knowledge.

Alexa + currently works in Amazon’s Nova models and models Anthropical. However, Amazon’s VP of Amazon and ECHO VP will remain “model agnostik” and the company can present other models (at least models Amazon Bedrok) To find the best to perform the tasks.

“[It’s about] Selecting the correct integrations to perform a task, the correct instructions are actually contradicting the task, then Rausch. “The great thing to understand about it is to develop the best models everywhere in Alexa, Bedrock.”

What is the model mixing?

Model mixing or Model route Allows businesses and other users to select a suitable AI model to score inquiry on the basis of inquiry. The developers go to mix to reduce the costs. After all, not every command should be answered by a model of thinking; Some models perform certain tasks better.

Amazon’s cloud and AI unit, BoringIt was a supporter of mixing the model for a long time. Recently announced a feature in the bed called Smart bond routeWhat directs the best model and model size to solve the query.

And it can work. “I can say that I cannot say for any response that any given task used to do any task.”

Agency and orchestrasis

Rausch said Alexa + agents brought together in three different ways. First traditional API; Second are agents that can apply as websites and applications Anthropik’s computer useOpen third, combines agents to other agents.

“But in the center of this, all this ride between all these different types of experiments is this based, very skilled, modern LLMS,” Rausch said.

He added that if the third party application is already in its own agent, this agent can also speak with agents with a different model, but also with agents working inside Alexa +.

Rausch stressed that Alexa has used bedding tools and technology, including new Many agent orchestra tools.

Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger told Venturebeat that this would not be able to implement the previous versions of the Claude Alexa +.

“Really interesting” Why is it now? ‘ The moment in the demo seems clear, because of course, the models got better, “said Krieger. “But if you try to do this with 3.0 Sonet or 3.0 level model, I think you will fight multiple different means to use a large number of different means.”

Neither Rausch, what Krieger Amazon’s special anthropic model built Alexa + is worth indicating this anthropicle Released Claude 3.7 Sonnet Available on Monday and this bed.

Great investments in AI

Many user’s first brush with AI came through AI voice assistants such as Alexa, Google home or even Apple’s Siri. People put some tasks aside as the lights burn. I do not have an Alexa or Google home device, but I have recently learned how comfortable someone will be in a hotel. Alexa’s alarm stop, turn on the lights and open a curtain under the covers.

However, Alexa, Google home appliances and Siri united in people’s lives, they began to show their age when generative AI became popular. Suddenly, people asked more intelligent task resolutions as they wanted more real time responses than AI’s assistants and added multiple meetings to calendars without more wishes.

Amazon, especially the growth of the AII, especially made it possible for Alexa to meet the potential.

“So far, we have limited to technology in Alexa,” said Panos Panay, Amazon’s devices and services SVP, Demo said.

Rausch, hope, Alexa +, said that it continues to add new models and hopefully the technology continues to relax more people.