Alexa Plus

“If we started from zero customers, I think this is a different story. You can move a lot faster, we can solve problems, and then just add features as we go, if that makes sense. So maybe we just had a conversationalist, a pretty cool one, then we can add perso…”

“And we haven't released the new Alexa app yet. It's coming with, if you get Alexa Plus, you get the Alexa app, the Alexa Plus app, as well as Alexa.com.”

“You know, we're finishing the product now. It's coming out next month, so we're pumped that we're through the event, and yeah, there's some relief, I would say.”

“When we start rolling out preview, the first customers to get preview will be our screen-based customers because it's the best experience.”

“We work very closely with Anthropic on a variety of different parts of our business. Obviously it was highlighted in the Alexa plus event, but we're working with Anthropic on other parts of the store's business and other parts of the business as well. So like …”

“I don't have a specific date to offer you today because we're adjusting the timelines and, you know according to the rollout. But in the, in its months, it's not next year.”

“But I did speak with Panos Panay, the head of devices and services of at Amazon. And he said by the end of October, everybody should have it. So no more early access.”

“Anyone who wants access we're giving access over ten million people have access right now.”

“And while it will work on 97% of devices out there right now in people's homes, we still want to do it in a way where when we're, when we switch people over because they choose to, that they feel great about it.”

“Like, there's not, there's no other agent out there or kind of assistant that's using, you know, Tens and tens, 7000, I won't give you the amount of experts, but those experts also, all of them looking across, calling hundreds and hundreds of APIs and being ab…”

“Once you engage it once or twice, the usage spikes.”

“End of October, though, just so you know where it's at, we're going to be rolling it out to everybody. If you buy a new Echo device, we launched four new Echo devices yesterday. We're pretty pumped about it, or I'm pretty pumped about it, maybe. But all those …”

“I do not think it's on par with a Gemini voice mode OpenAI voice, ChatGPT voice mode, but, and it gets a lot of stuff wrong. Like, weirdly, I posted about this on Twitter the other day, like, it gets NFL scores wrong.”

“I think Alexa plus is the best of the bunch.”