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Panay: Amazon will roll out Alexa Plus to everybody by late October
“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 …”
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: No competitor comes close to Alexa's home understanding
“I don't think there's anyone close to be able to understand your home as Amazon, as Alexa.”
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.”
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…”
Panay: Over 10 million people currently have early access to Alexa Plus
“Anyone who wants access we're giving access over ten million people have access right now.”
Panay: Alexa Plus will work on 97% of existing home devices
“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.”
Panay: Changing products without customer request destroys trust overnight
“You lose trust with the customer. You lose it overnight, Alex, like at a level that they don't come back. You know, they didn't, if they didn't ask for it, and even if they did and you didn't give them what they wanted, you lose trust, and that's such a big de…”
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.”
Panay: Alexa Plus usage spikes after users try agentic features once or twice
“Once you engage it once or twice, the usage spikes.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
Panay: Amazon Could Have Launched AI Faster Without Legacy Alexa Base
“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…”
Panay: Amazon's Alexa launch event featured a live working product
“What makes you nervous in an event like that, you're not worried about the product working. I mean, six months ago, I would have worried about the product working, and I would have shown you more vision demos, like videos, but the product's working.”
Panos Panay: Ambient smart devices will not replace the smartphone
“I don't think it replaces the centerpiece of the phone. I think it just adds value to your life in a very different way.”
Panos Panay: Alexa Plus will launch with a dedicated web interface
“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.”
Panay: The Alexa App Delivers Shorter Responses to Voice Than Text
“Like, if you use the Alexa app right now, and you speak to it, it's going to give you a shorter answer with less information.”
Amazon Announces Alexa Integration With Oura Ring
“Yesterday, we announced an integration with Aura for wellness”
Panos Panay: Amazon will release Alexa Plus next month
“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.”
Panay: Alexa AI Re-Architecture Required Rebuilding Two Separate Stacks
“Once you put the vision together, you realize you need a full re-architecture, but you're not going to leave your customers out. So you're re-architecting pretty much two stacks at that point. One, what is classically known as Alexa to be awesome and come into…”