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Amazon's most powerful new Alexa features being powered by Anthropic's AI, sources say
Дата публикации: 28-02-2025 11:45:42



Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeatedly refused during a Fox News interview to apologize for his stunning Oval Office clash with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. But Zelenskyy said in a Fox News interview, “This kind of spat is not good for both sides.” The Ukrainian leader told Fox News’ Brett Baier that “it will be difficult for us” to defend his country from Russian military forces if Trump discontinues aid.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeatedly refused on Friday evening to apologize for his stunning Oval Office clash with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance hours earlier.
“No,” Zelensky said, when Fox News‘ Bret Baier asked if he owed Trump an apology, after Trump had accused him of disrespect.
But Zelenskyy said, “This kind of spat is not good for both sides.”
The Ukrainian leader in his televised interview also said that “it will be difficult for us” to defend his country from invading Russian military forces if Trump discontinues aid to Ukraine.
“That’s why we’re here,” Zelenskyy said. “It will be difficult without your support.”
“Your people help to save our people,” he later said.
He expressed gratitude to Trump and the American people for the U.S. aid provided so far.
“I’m very thankful to Americans for all your support. You did a lot. I’m thankful to President Trump and to Congress,” Zelenskyy said.
“You helped us a lot. From the very beginning, during three years of full-scale invasion, you helped us to survive.”
The clash earlier Thursday at the White House began when Zelenskyy disputed Vance’s argument that Ukraine could obtain peace with Russia through diplomacy, with the Ukrainian president noting how Russian leader Vladimir Putin has repeatedly violated prior agreements.
“He killed our people, and he didn’t exchange prisoners,” Zelenskyy said about Putin. “What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about? What do you mean?”
Vance blasted Zelenskyy for not thanking Trump in public Friday, and Trump said Zelenskyy was risking the deaths of millions of people, and of starting “World War III” if he did not reach a peace deal.
Zelensky soon after left the White House without signing a planned deal to give the United States access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine. Zelenskyy wants that deal to be a precursor to Trump guaranteeing support for Ukraine if Russia violates a potential peace agreement.
In his Fox News interview, Zelenskyy said he regretted his dispute with Trump and Vance was televised, and in front of reporters.
“We are thankful and sorry for this. I mean this, we wanted very much to have strong relations,” he told Baier.
Pressed if he should apologize to Trump, Zelenskyy said, “I think that we have to be very open and very honest.”
“And I’m not sure that we did something bad,” Zelenskyy said.
Asked if he believed that his relationship with Trump could be salvaged, the Ukrainian leader said, “Yes, of course.”
 Shortly before the interview, Trump said Zelenskyy had “overplayed his hand.”
“He’s looking for something that I’m not looking for,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.
“He’s looking to go on and fight, fight, fight. We’re looking to end the death.”
Trump’s message drew sharp rebukes from European and NATO leaders, who reiterated their support for Ukraine in statements across social media.
Many of them also signaled that Europe is aware of the larger role it will likely have to take in ensuring that Ukraine can continue to defend itself.
“We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor,” said European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas in a post on the social media site X.
“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge,” Kallas wrote.


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  • Anthropic's Claude large language model is powering the majority of complex tasks for Amazon's new Alexa+, sources tell CNBC. 
  • Amazon said that information is "false."
  • Amazon has agreed to invest $8 billion into the AI startup, founded by early OpenAI employees. 

Amazon, the leading investor in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, is relying on that company's AI models to power the most advanced capabilities in new Alexa devices, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Anthropic's Claude large language model is handling the vast majority of questions that customers have been asking the new Alexa, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the details are confidential.

Earlier this week, Amazon unveiled its long-awaited overhaul of its decade-old devices. For the first time, Amazon will charge users to access a version of Alexa. The "Alexa+" service will be $19.99 a month, or free for Amazon Prime members, and will roll out in early access next month.

During the demonstration this week, Alexa+ was able to make dinner reservations, order groceries or book an Uber, tasks that were mostly not possible with older versions. Alexa, once a leader in natural language and machine learning, has been lagging the competition since the emergence of generative AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, which have quickly advanced beyond text conversations and into AI-generated audio, images and videos.

Anthropic declined to comment. Amazon said information in the story is "false."

"In fact, over the past four weeks Nova handled over 70% of conversations — including complex requests," an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an email. "That said, from a customer perspective this doesn't matter — both are excellent models and in there to deliver the best experience for customers."

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The spokesperson added that the way Amazon designed the architecture, "Alexa+ is always using the best model for each task."

At the event, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy described the overhaul as "rearchitecting" the brain of Alexa.

In addition to the roughly $8 billion its agreed to invest in Anthropic, Amazon has been developing its own AI models and rolled out its Nova series late last year. Amazon offers Anthropic's Claude model as part of its Amazon Web Services Bedrock offering, which gives customers access to a variety of AI options. It lets users pick between Amazon's Nova and Titan models, as well as Mistral and others.

Amazon said it used Bedrock to power Alexa. But Claude has been the model tackling the more complex tasks the company showcased at its devices event in New York this week, the sources said. Claude has powered the queries that take more thinking and "intellectual heft," one person said.

While Amazon's own AI models are still being used, they are handling the tasks that require less reasoning, these people said. 

As part of Amazon's initial investment into Anthropic, the company was able to use a certain amount of Anthropic capacity for free over the course of 18 months, according to one source. That deal has now expired, and the companies are renegotiating the terms of their agreement, the person said.

Anthropic's model has expanded far beyond Alexa within Amazon and is helping to drive product search and advertising as well, the person said.

Panos Panay, Amazon's senior vice president of devices and services and the leader of Alexa's redesign, called Anthropic an "awesome" partner at this week's event. Panay, who joined the company in 2023 after two decades at Microsoft, said Anthropic's foundational model is "incredible."

"We pick the model that's right for the job," Panay told CNBC in an interview on Wednesday. "We use Amazon Bedrock — Alexa picks the right model to get the job done."

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