Jassy, from today’s Q3 2024 earnings call:
We continue to re-architect the brain of Alexa with a new set of foundation models that we’ll share with customers in the near future.
The supercharged Alexa was first announced in September 2023.
There aren’t actual specifics on numbers in Amazon’s Q3 earnings (which makes sense — the new Kindles launched this quarter), but sounds like sales of the new Kindles are already good.
I’m curious how many people bought the Colorsoft Signature Edition, which I want but have no reason to buy.
[ir.aboutamazon.com]
Blue Origin leadership has viewed Donald Trump as positive for space. Most of Jeff Bezos’ focus is currently on Blue Origin. “Elon’s real superpower is getting government money,” Bezos has said, according to The Post.
Bezos claims spiking the Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement was a “principled decision.”
[The Washington Post]
Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away.
The Echo ecosystem has seen its fair share of failures while trying to popularize Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant.
When dealing with an aging parent, Alexa was a great help — in both practical and emotionally important ways.
When Amazon launched its Alexa voice assistant, it envisioned a computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it.
It was just a little whoopsie it got announced so close to the election, that’s all! Also he didn’t know about the Blue Origin meeting with Trump and besides that was not his fault. “I sighed when I found out,” he says. I guess people are still canceling their subs!
[The Washington Post]
Nothing to see here, I’m sure. Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin and The Post, just really strongly felt like there didn’t need to be a presidential endorsement this time around, no reason.
Like a Dragon proves that a quality adaptation doesn’t always have to be a faithful one.
The tools, which include things like summarizing your notes and turning your handwriting into a script font, will be available on the updated Kindle Scribe at launch (it ships on December 4th) and will hit the 2022 model “via a software update later this year,” Amazon says.
[www.aboutamazon.com]
