Amazon and Apple are struggling to place generative AI expertise of their digital assistants — Alexa and Siri, respectively — in line with a pair of studies that got here out on Friday.
Amazon hoped to launch its new Alexa throughout an occasion in New York on February 26. Now Amazon plans to delay the discharge of its generative AI-powered Alexa till March or later, in line with the Washington Publish.
In the meantime, Bloomberg studies that Apple’s AI overhaul of Siri is working into engineering issues and software program bugs. Some new options round Siri that had been deliberate for launch in April will not be prepared till Might or later.
Amazon and Apple hoped to launch these up to date merchandise shortly to compete with next-gen AI voice assistants, similar to OpenAI’s Superior Voice Mode and Google’s Gemini Reside. Nonetheless, these efforts will not be going in line with plan.
