Amazon lays off hundreds more Alexa employees to focus on generative AI projects

According to news from this site on November 18, after Amazon laid off about 180 people in its gaming department, the company once again laid off hundreds of employees responsible for the Alexa voice assistant.

Amazon has laid off hundreds of Alexa team members across offices across the U.S. and Canada, according to an internal memo disclosed by GeekWire.

## Daniel Rausch, vice president of Amazon Alexa and Fire TV, said that the department is adjusting its business development focus to ensure and Its business priorities remain aligned and maximize our resources and efforts focused on generative artificial intelligence.

While laying off hundreds of employees, Rausch also said it would stop Alexa-related development plans. The memo did not provide a specific number of employees affected or which "initiatives" would be shut down.

Amazon was caught somewhat off guard by the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence. Over the past year, generative AI technology, pioneered primarily by Microsoft and Google, has made significant progress. Now, we still need to see whether Amazon can catch up with these efforts quickly enough

This site quoted The Information as recently reporting that Amazon is developing its own generative AI chatbot, which is codenamed

Olympus

, it may be announced at the company's AWS Reinvent conference on November 27. Related reading:

"It is reported that Amazon will lay off about 180 people in its gaming department to focus resources on areas with greater potential"

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