Daniel Rausch

VP of Alexa and Echo, Amazon · 1 appearance on the record.

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Daniel Rausch is Vice President of Alexa and Echo at Amazon. He leads Amazon's voice and ambient computing products, focusing on re-architecting Alexa with generative AI.

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Daniel Rausch: Alexa orchestrates multiple specialized models rather than one LLM
“People assume the large language model is the product. A product like Alexa is. So much more than quote unquote, just a large language model. So you have models playing many different roles in the system overall, even models helping us decide which model and m…”
Daniel Rausch Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 9:04 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
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Rausch: Amazon tracks Alexa component latency in single-digit milliseconds
“We count in single milliseconds now in system components.”
Daniel Rausch Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 13:52 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
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Daniel Rausch: Making non-deterministic AI fast for simple instructions is hard
“Making a non-deterministic system fast that can respond in any way, gathers all the context, figures out legions of different things which experts to invoke. Making that system fast on something as simple as a instruction or, you know, is, is hard.”
Daniel Rausch Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 18:34 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up

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How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up Mar 5, 2025 9m
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