Amazon is creating its personal consumer-focused AI chatbot that might compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and could possibly be revealed later this yr, based on a report from Enterprise Insider.
The chatbot service, code-named “Metis,” can be accessed through net browser and powered by a brand new foundational mannequin, based on Enterprise Insider, which cited sources and paperwork.
The transfer would add Amazon to a rising checklist of tech giants and startups providing new AI assistants, together with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon-backed Anthropic, amongst a number of others.
Amazon declined to remark in response to an inquiry from GeekWire.
Reuters and CNBC each reported just lately about Amazon’s plans to roll out a brand new model of its Alexa voice assistant, referred to as “Exceptional Alexa,” together with a paid tier.
Enterprise Insider reported that Metis and Exceptional Alexa use a number of the identical infrastructure.
Analysts with Financial institution of America mentioned Monday that the paid tier might generate $600 million in further gross sales for Amazon, based mostly on a ten% adoption charge of exiting Alexa energetic customers.
Final yr Amazon rolled out “Amazon Q,” a generative AI-powered assistant for enterprise use, and in February launched Rufus, a brand new AI buying assistant.
Amazon has been attempting to reveal momentum in generative AI in Amazon Internet Companies and throughout its enterprise over the previous yr, in search of to counter the notion that it has fallen behind within the AI expertise race.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who’s reportedly immediately concerned with “Metis,” has beforehand described three-layered AI technique of enabling prospects to create new AI basis fashions, serving to them use present basis fashions, and constructing AI purposes.
