Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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I'll integrate ChatGPT into my household when I can run it locally on my own server computer.

You can do that right meow. Not ChatGPT but open source models.

Anything decent that doesn't require a couple of 3090s?

Thanks I'll have to check them out - are these going to be gateway AIs that will end up with me talking myself into buying 2x3090s? I'm just asking now to know how much I'm going to test the bounds of WAF in the near future.

Most assistance models will run in a pi