Alexa: Subscription-based version with AI to arrive in October

Amazon will finally release a new version of Alexa sometime in October this year. Information taken from the newspaper Washington Postgained access to internal company documents regarding the long-awaited evolution of the personal assistant.

Turbocharged version of Alexa, according to materials only available with monthly subscription payment and will contain mostly new features artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The original and free assistant will continue to be available to all users as normal.

Rumors of a paid version of Alexa first began circulating in 2023 but have gained steam this year, but the company has delayed the platform’s launch, mainly due to development challenges.

Rumors suggest that the service could cost between $5 and $10 per month as a monthly fee, which would be around R$25 to R$50 per month in direct currency conversion. So far, Amazon has only officially confirmed the existence of the project but has not confirmed its current development status.

Paid Alexa approved features

One of the main additions to Alexa with artificial intelligence, according to the newspaper Smart Briefing.This is a kind of daily news summary “Helping consumers filter, summarize, and discover current events” with the help of AI.

The new Alexa also says “more talkative and charismatic“, recognizing the voices of each resident of the house and even asking questions about them to better serve each user.

This way, the AI ​​will be able to send you recipes that only contain ingredients you don’t like, or suggest activities for the weekend depending on whether you have small children, for example.

Turbocharged Alexa still helps search for new recipes and shop efficiently. You can ask the assistant about the color of certain products and whether there is a promotion for a particular product in the store.

Specifically geared towards kids, Alexa will feature a dedicated and supervised chatbot with a function called . Explore with Alexa 2.0 It helps increase young people’s interest in different subjects by creating organic conversations about topics of interest.

Finally, the newspaper reported that the company “web based product” This will compete directly with tools like ChatGPT.