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Alexa Just Got Smarter – Here’s How You Can Use It! 🚀
Time to bring out your old Echo! Amazon's new AI-powered Alexa is now available on older devices, making your smart assistant even smarter and easier to use.
NextFuture AI
March 01, 2025
Advanced AI Under the Hood
Alexa+ is “model agnostic,” seamlessly switching between Amazon’s own LLMs and third-party AI models like Claude to optimize responses.
Enhanced vision capabilities also allow it to analyze images, videos, and even live camera feeds. Plus, it remains compatible with many older Echo devices.
Why the Delay?
Alexa’s deep integration with Amazon’s ecosystem—spanning Ring cameras, Kindle e-readers, and more—meant extra development time to ensure smooth cross-platform communication.
Now that Amazon has cracked the code, this interconnectedness could be a key advantage over competitors.
How to Get It
If you’re already an Amazon Prime subscriber, you’ll get full access at no extra cost. But if you don’t have Prime, you can pay $20/month for the premium AI features.
Ready to experience the smartest Alexa yet?
Weekly Spotlight…🚀
🔹 Microsoft Introduces Phi-4 – A compact yet powerful multimodal AI capable of processing speech, text, and images. It ranks #1 in translation and includes a lighter Phi-4-mini version optimized for mobile and automotive applications.
🔹 GPT-4.5 Launch Imminent – Reports suggest OpenAI’s next model could arrive this week, initially limited to $200/month Pro users. Early insights indicate incremental improvements over GPT-4o rather than a major breakthrough.
🔹 ElevenLabs Unveils Scribe – A new speech-to-text model that surpasses OpenAI’s Whisper v3, offering 95%+ accuracy across 99 languages for high-quality transcription and translation.
AI & TECH NEWS 🚀
💬 Talking Encyclopedia: Perplexity’s faster, revamped voice mode lets you “engage in a long conversation about any topic,” including real-time news from the web.
💬 Empathetic AI: Hume released a new model called Octave, which says it is the first to be trained on “emotional tokens” — helping it generate speech with better “rhythm, cadence, and emphasis.”
💬 Rock Solid: IBM unveiled a new open-source reasoning model called Granite 3.2 that can quickly switch between standard thinking and chain of thought, following in the footsteps of Claude 3.7.
💬 Book Rec: Harvard Business School professor and entrepreneur Jeff Bussgang’s new book, The Experimentation Machine, explores how to find product-market fit in the age of AI, as well as how to use LLMs “to design, sequence, and rigorously run startup experiments.”
Top 5 AI Voice Generators for Instant Audio Creation
ElevenLabs – Realistic AI voice synthesis in multiple languages.
Speechify – Converts text to natural-sounding speech.
WellSaid Labs – High-quality AI voiceovers for professional use.
Murf AI – Studio-quality voiceovers with 120+ voices.
Synthesys AI Studio – AI-powered voice and video generation.
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🔍 Flow State: Coder Ronith Kandallu demoed a “dynamic prompt field” he built that uses AI to switch between different commands on the fly based on what you type in.
💼 Slack Speedrun: Builder Mckay Wrigley shows how to build a Slack clone with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Cursor Agent in about an hour.
🛠️ Do It Yourself: Solopreneur Marc Lou shared a three-hour guide for how to create your own SaaS business entirely with AI.
✍️ Grok Prompts: Tool and Tea shares its top tips for prompting with Grok 3, including six sample prompts that you can adapt to your needs.
Quick Tutorial⚡
Kling AI, developed by the Kuaishou AI Team, is a text-to-video AI tool that allows users to create artistic videos.
Here are some of its key features:
Video Generation from Text: Generates high-quality videos directly from text descriptions.
Image-to-Video Conversion: Transforms static images into dynamic videos.
Realistic & Stylized Outputs: Offers flexibility in choosing between lifelike visuals or a more artistic look.
AI-Driven Creativity: Interprets text or images, generating visually coherent videos.
Fast and Efficient Video Creation: Optimized for quick production without compromising quality.
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