Amazon has announced an upgrade to its voice assistant, Alexa, with a new large language model (LLM) that offers more conversational abilities and human-like qualities. The new Alexa LLM will be available soon as a free preview on Alexa-powered devices in the U.S. Amazon claims it is "smarter, more conversational," and has a more realistic voice. The company aims to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT by offering "real-world applications" for users. Developers can integrate their own third-party language models into Alexa, and the technology includes improved text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition capabilities.
