Amazon Unveils New Gadgets as AI Race Heats Up
- Company says more than 500 million Alexa-enabled devices sold
- New gadgets include slimmed Echo speaker, cheaper ear buds
Amazon.com Inc. introduced an updated slate of Echo devices and pledged to bring ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence to Alexa-powered gadgets.
For more than a year the digital assistant has been using a home-built set of large language models — the foundational networks that enable ChatGPT and rival technologies — to help summarize text gathered from the web and make Alexa more conversant in various languages, Dave Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president of Devices & Services, said in an interview.