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AmazonAlexa’s10-year anniversary passedwithout fanfare and, in particular, without the major AI update we werepromised in 2023.
More pertinently, could that change ultimately be Claude in disguise?
Amazon announced thefresh investment on Friday in a blog postand characterized it as a deepening “strategic collaboration.”
Nvidia,now the world’s most valuable company, has made a huge business out of this.
Anthropic, still a startup, needs a tech giant like Amazon to back its AI aspirations.
Currently, they’re underpinning much of the cloud-based AI Amazon provides to partners through its Amazon Bedrock platform.
Today’s Alexa is generations behind leading chatbots likeChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot.
This is even though Amazon demonstrated a far more intelligent and conversationalAlexa AI in September 2023.
This will start, I think, with Amazon finally buying Anthropic.
Anthropic and Claude do not have the brand cache of OpenAI and ChatGPT.
In the meantime, I asked Claude, “Will you power the next version of Amazon Alexa?”
