“In other words, it won’t be included in existing Prime memberships.”
Amazon’s own model took 6 to 7 seconds to answer in early tests, so the new Alexa runs on Claude from Anthropic. Amazon has put $4 billion into Anthropic. The upgrade is expected to cost $5 to $10 a month on top of Prime. Amazon claims 500 million Alexa devices sold, and owners now get to pay again for the assistant they already bought.