Amazon says Alexa+ is ‘model agnostic’

Amazon says that Alexa+, the new and improved Alexa unveiled on Wednesday, is powered by a “model agnostic” system that always uses the “best” AI model for a given task. On stage at a New York City press event, Amazon VP Daniel Rausch explained that Alexa+ draws on Bedrock — the company’s cloud platform designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models — to power its various capabilities. Among the models Alexa+ uses are Nova, Amazon’s in-house generative AI model family; as well as models from close partner and collaborator, Anthropic. Claude will help power Amazon's next-generation AI assistant, Alexa+. Amazon and Anthropic have worked closely together over the past year, with @mikeyk leading a team that helped Amazon get the full benefits of Claude's capabilities. pic.twitter.com/yI0abtnZke — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) February 26, 2025 “[W]e built a sophisticated [model] routing system [to match] each customer request with the best model for the task at hand, ... Read full article.