Amazon is gearing as much as launch new {hardware} to go together with its AI-upgraded Alexa. Throughout an interview with Bloomberg, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy mentioned the corporate has a “model new lineup of units which are coming within the fall which are stunning.”
On Wednesday, Amazon revealed Alexa Plus, a extra conversational model of the good assistant that’s able to performing a wider vary of duties, equivalent to ordering an Uber or discovering live performance tickets. Amazon says “nearly each” Alexa gadget will help Alexa Plus, save for older Echo generations. Alexa Plus will cost $19.99 per month however might be included with a subscription to Prime.
Although Jassy didn’t share every other particulars in regards to the new units, it looks as if the corporate plans to place a good greater concentrate on shows. When requested about Amazon’s next-generation {hardware}, Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of units and providers, instructed my colleague Jennifer Tuohy that, “I imagine in screens. I feel they matter in an enormous means.”