Amazon secretly building AI agent named Metis that will book flights, plan vacations and control lights in your home [Video]

AMAZON is rumored to be working on an AI assistant that can hold conversations, plan vacations, and book flights.

Insiders claim the tech giant is developing its first chatbot powered by artificial intelligence.

The story was broken by Business Insider, who cited “people familiar with the project” and branded the tool “a ChatGPT killer”. Amazon itself has yet to comment on the rumors.

Sources claim Metis is fueled by an AI model called Olympus, which is said to be a more powerful version of the publicly available Titan model.

In its simplest form, Metis returns text- and image-based answers, according to internal documents. It can provide links to cite its sources and suggest follow-up questions.

Amazon plans to implement a technique called retrieval-augmented generation, which combines the capabilities of a pre-trained …