I am seeing a Y split walkway, if they keep going down their "pay for service" route, they will fail and Microsoft, Sony or Acer will take Alexas and Echo Devices place.
I am not going to pay extra! If Alex is not getting better it will be replaced. I am 1000% sure that there will be a couple of Chat GPT based smart speakers and I dont see how Amazon can compete with that! So yeah if they dont want to crash/trash their whole Alexa and Echo brand, they need to get Chat GPT on Echo speakers and to Alexa! They should stop wasting money on their own AI stuff and find a way to make it free! Because why would I pay even 1 buck for AI, while Chat GPT is free right now.