At an event in New York on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant.

Amazon also revealed that you won’t have to wait too long to try out Alexa Plus for yourself as it will be released in the coming weeks. The initial rollout will be U.S. only an

Alexa Plus is here but it's only supported by four Echo products as of now, and won't be supported by more than half a dozen Echo devices.

The Verge is live blogging Amazon’s big Alexa event in New York City. It kicks off at 10AM ET on February 26th, and we’re expecting the company to announce a new subscription-based version of Alexa that’s beefed up with a bunch of AI features.

Amazon’s generative AI-powered Alexa+ will pull from the Amazon Bedrock library of large language models to perform household tasks and answer natural language queries, Amazon announced on. Amazon Alexa competes with Apple’s Siri,

Amazon has officially announced its new, more conversational Alexa voice assistant, but our research shows users aren't fans of cost or privacy risks.

Amazon held its Devices and Services event today, during which it made some major announcements. Here's what you can expect from the new Alexa+.