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BMW’s voice assistant is getting an Alexa Plus upgrade — eventually.

We’ve been waiting for BMW’s next-gen voice assistant for a while now. The custom Alexa voice assistant for was initially announced in 2022, but progress has been slow in an attempt to build it around Amazon’s more capable LLM-powered Alexa Plus. Now BMW and Amazon say that customers will be able to experience it “soon.” How soon? We don’t know! Which models? Unclear!

The custom Alexa assistant will ‘enables ‘natural, conversational experiences in BMW vehicles,’ Amazon says.
The custom Alexa assistant will ‘enables ‘natural, conversational experiences in BMW vehicles,’ Amazon says.
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