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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 8 points 4 months ago

Two things:

our alexa units are fine. We manage a half-dozen bulbs and a set-top box.
if they want a subscription to keep doing that, HomeAssistant becomes the top job on the queue.

That's it.