Is Alexa’s brainy BFF on the horizon? Amazon rumored to launch a ChatGPT competitor [Video]

Amazon has nailed the smart home game with Alexa, but it’s been trailing in the AI arena. To close the gap, it is reportedly gearing up to launch a turbocharged version of Alexa. Plus, rumor has it the company is working on its own chatbot to go head-to-head with ChatGPT.

Amazon reportedly working on a new “Metis” chatbot

According to Business Insider (subscription required to view), Amazon is reportedly developing a new chatbot called “Metis.” Citing an internal document and unnamed sources, the report says Metis will be powered by a new AI model named Olympus instead of Amazon’s earlier AI model, Titan.

With Metis, Amazon is reportedly planning to use a method called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This approach allows the chatbot to find and provide information it wasn’t specifically trained on, such as current stock prices.

In a nutshell, RAG enables systems to pull data from external sources like APIs and document repositories. This means the data can be …