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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

submitted 5 months ago by cloudless@lemmy.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

GPT4ALL

FreeChat

Alpaca

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Most assistance models will run in a pi