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Amazon was revealed to have developed the AI agent "Moonraker": Alexa will support multi-step complex tasks in series. According to technology media, Amazon is secretly advancing an advanced artificial intelligence agent (AI Agent) project code-named "Moonraker", aiming to empower the intelligent voice assistant Alexa to perform complex tasks in series.
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Amazon was revealed to have developed the AI agent "Moonraker": Alexa will support multi-step complex tasks in series. According to technology media, Amazon is secretly advancing an advanced artificial intelligence agent (AI Agent) project code-named "Moonraker", aiming to give the intelligent voice assistant Alexa the ability to perform complex tasks in series. As an extension of the current generative AI assistant Alexa Plus, Moonraker changes the previous limitation of only responding to a single command at a time. It can deeply understand complex requests and automatically perform multiple related operations in a logical sequence. For example, users only need to issue a single command, and the system can simultaneously complete multi-step workflows such as "calling a ride-hailing service" and "sending text message notifications to friends". This technological upgrade marks Alexa’s evolution from a traditional “question and answer” voice assistant to a true digital personal assistant capable of handling complex multi-step tasks. Currently, Amazon is using the advanced AI model provided by Anthropic to test the system, and has prepared hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs to support more advanced reasoning and vision functions. However, this extremely ambitious strategic move also leaves Amazon facing huge financial and technical challenges. Internal planning documents show that the GPU hardware cost of the Moonraker project alone will exceed US$100 million in 2026, making it the most expensive project in the Alexa Plus upgrade plan. In view of the sharp increase in the cost of large-scale model computing power and the occurrence of technical bottlenecks such as hallucinations and abnormal behavior in previous tests, Amazon's internal executives disagreed on the huge expenditure of the project and proposed plans to postpone or reduce the scale of the project. Despite cost pressures and technological adjustments, data recently disclosed by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy still shows positive signs of commercial transformation: the frequency of users using Alexa Plus has doubled, and the number of orders placed through the assistant has tripled. Currently, global technology giants such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are deploying the Agentic AI track at full speed. The advancement of the Moonraker project is not only Amazon's close follow-up of technology evolution trends, but also a key battle for it to seize the entrance to the next generation of human-computer interaction. via AI News (author: AI Base)