Ten years after Amazon debuted its virtual assistant, Alexa is finally being upgraded for the generative AI age. Meet Alexa+.

Amazon’s generative AI-powered Alexa+ will pull from the Amazon Bedrock library of large language models to perform household tasks and answer natural language queries, Amazon announced on. Amazon Alexa competes with Apple’s Siri,

Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa — Alexa Plus — that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly.