Panos Panay

10 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2025 by Panos Panay · said 17 times in 10 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 5, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Panay: Consumers will use multiple AI assistants rather than just one
“I think people use different assistants. I don't think there's any question about it. I don't think there's one.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 31:17 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Panay: No other assistant currently executes agentic API service calls
“Getting down to calling a service, calling the right API, making the right partnership so that API is called to make it as simple as possible. It, it's I don't think it's been accomplished. I don't think you're seeing it out there anywhere connected to an assi…”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 34:02 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Oct 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: All ambient AI companion devices will ultimately incorporate screens
“I think they're all going to go screen. I remember when Amazon announced the Echo device and it was so cool because it glowed at the top and talked to you. And we had Panos Panay from Amazon, head of devices and services, On the show in March, and he besieged …”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 39:47 OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
Oct 13, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Kantrowitz: Amazon's Panos Panay says Alexa Plus rolls out broadly by October end
“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.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 48:06 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Oct 23, 2025
Insight
Panay: Startups do not build faster than incumbents, they just start from zero
“It doesn't mean they build it quicker. It just, they don't, You know, you start from zero and you build up, you know, versus starting from hundreds of millions and handing it over. I think that's just reality.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 13:39 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025
Insight
Panay: New form factors shift specific jobs rather than killing legacy devices
“What happens is the job moves, the appropriate job moves from device to device to device.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 35:07 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Amazon cancels plenty of late-stage devices before shipping
“There are plenty of devices that get towards the end that don't make it to the shipping floor.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 42:39 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025
Insight
Panay: Product teams that please every user have not pushed innovation far enough
“If every single person was happy with what you built, I promise you didn't push it far enough. I promise you just did not. But if everybody's pissed at you definitely pushed it too far, you know, and so you're, and so you have to find a little bit of that bala…”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 19:38 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: No other AI assistant coordinates 7,000 experts across hundreds of APIs
“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…”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 14:00 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Alexa Plus usage spikes after users try agentic features once or twice
“Once you engage it once or twice, the usage spikes.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 17:48 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
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