Breaking News: The Amazon company is officially slashing hundreds of jobs in the unit handling for the voice assistant Alexa. We all know about Alexa. Alexa is the world’s most popular voice assistant. It is going to happen for more resources in artificial intelligence. A note was recently released on 17th November 2023, Friday by the Vice President of Amazon Alexa and Fire TV Daniel Rausch. They stated that currently, Amazon is eliminating some of the roles due to the ditching of the initiatives. The company is currently continuing to make and the company is also shifting some of its efforts for the great alignment with its business priorities and what they know matters to the customers a lot. It includes most of their resources and efforts that are focused on generative AI.
Daniel Rausch has also said that a lot of roles have been slashed but till now they have not revealed a more precise figure. The jobs cut news was officially announced on 17th November 2023, Friday as it is going to impact employees in the United States, India, and Canada. It has been recently notified that the Seattle-based Amazon is currently in fierce competition with some other tech companies who are rushing to capitalize on the generative AI craze. For further details, scroll down to the next paragraph of this article.
According to the source, right now Amazon has been implementing some AI initiatives in the past few months as they are infusing the technology in the reviews of customers so that they can provide the services which officially allow the developers to generate their own Artificial Intelligence tools in the AWS cloud infrastructure. In September 2023, the company officially announced a new update for the popular voice assistant Alexa. The update is infused with some more generative Artificial Intelligence features.
Sources have revealed that the official announcement of cutting the position of employees in Amazon follows more current layoffs in the company’s gaming and music teams where on the other hand it is adding to almost 27,000 employees the company has laid at the time of the later parts of the previous year and of the starting of this year. The voice assistant Amazon Alexa unit was impacted because of the cuts. Till now it has not been reported how many roles have been cut off. More details are to be shared very soon till then stay tuned to techballad.