Amazon Amazon.com Inc. today debuted Alexa+, a major upgrade of its voice assistant that uses artificial intelligence large language models to automate complex tasks.

Executives demonstrated the service’s capabilities at an event in New York. They showcased dozens of features that span tasks such as finding songs and ordering takeout from Uber Eats. According to Amazon, Alexa+ can automatically complete actions across tens of thousands of services.

The upgraded assistant is powered by LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Web Services Inc.’s managed AI service. Alexa+ uses the company’s internally developed Nova series of foundation models along with algorithms from Anthropic PBC. The latter startup, which develops an LLM family called Claude, has raised $8 billion in funding from Amazon over the past year.

The models that power Alexa+ draw on information from more than 200 media outlets. Amazon detailed that the Associated Press, Reuters, TIME and USA Today are among the news organizations which will make their content available to the assistant. Alexa+ also leverages data about user preferences to personalize its output.

Optionally, consumers can expand the assistant’s knowledge base by uploading their own data. Alexa+ is capable of ingesting product manuals, study guides and a range of other files. Amazon says that the assistant can use its knowledge base to answer both highly detailed queries and prompts containing a “half-formed question or idea.

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