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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately they still seem like they have a long way to go.

A huge part of the problem seems to be availability of good, reasknably-priced Appliance hardware. I'm looking for something that I don't have to build, that is $100 or so, and that's at least reasonably good (like, I'd accept the sound and microphone quality of the 1st gen echo mini which weren't that great.

But nothing like that seems to exist. Hopefully there's something now and I've just missed it.