Amazon's talking virtual assistant, Alexa, is to have own "session track" at Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference in a bid to connect with more developers. Third-party product manufacturers are already integrating Alexa into their devices, such as Samsung's refrigerators, and giving Alexa its own sessions for the first time is seen as an indication of the growing importance of the feature within the wider AWS platform. A year after opening Alexa to the public, Amazon has added tens of thousands registered developers, working on "10,000" of Alexa projects.
Amazon's talking virtual assistant, Alexa, is to have own "session track" at Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference in a bid to connect with more developers. Third-party product manufacturers are already integrating Alexa into their devices, such as Samsung's refrigerators, and giving Alexa its own sessions for the first time is seen as an indication of the growing importance of the feature within the wider AWS platform. A year after opening Alexa to the public, Amazon has added 10,000 registered developers, working on "tens of thousands" of Alexa projects.