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From Business Insider, July 8:
Amazon documents reveal a costly new Alexa AI project
Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks. Getting there is expensive, though.
Internal planning documents reviewed by Business Insider show Amazon is working on a previously unreported Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks for users.
Moonraker pushes Alexa into the AI agent race. Alexa+, its AI-powered assistant, already lets users book rides or buy tickets through partners such as Uber and Ticketmaster. Moonraker would take that a step further by completing multiple actions from a single request.
The project also highlights the steep cost of building more capable AI. Internal documents show Moonraker quickly became one of the most expensive parts of Amazon's latest Alexa+ overhaul....
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