Pricing the AI Race & Battle of the Home Smart Speakers 5/22/24
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4.5 • 66 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | See, |
| 0:02.0 | learning today that Amazon is planning to give Alexa an AI overhaul |
| 0:06.0 | and potentially charge a monthly fee. |
| 0:08.0 | Is this the beginning of an AI assistant race? |
| 0:11.0 | That is the topic of today's tech check with Georgia Bosa. |
| 0:13.2 | Morning, D. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey, good morning, Carl. |
| 0:15.1 | So the emergence of a new kind of AI assistant or agents |
| 0:19.0 | from Open AI and Google over the last few weeks |
| 0:21.7 | that could also represent a new chapter in smart |
| 0:24.3 | speakers which were the original voice assistance. Kate Rooney's great |
| 0:27.8 | scoop this morning tells us how Amazon might be thinking about its Alexa |
| 0:31.0 | positioning which has the lead in terms of smart speakers in the home. |
| 0:35.4 | Data from Statista shows Amazon echoes as the dominant player with 65% of the market. |
| 0:41.0 | Google Home trailing with just 24%. |
| 0:43.0 | Apple's Home Pod with 18%. |
| 0:45.4 | But when you look beyond these top three, |
| 0:47.3 | the picture isn't quite as clear. |
| 0:48.6 | Nest is owned by Google with another 17% |
| 0:51.2 | and the next most popular home speakers from Bose and JBL that gives its |
| 0:55.4 | users an option to use Alexa or Google Assistant. So the race closer than it first |
| 1:00.0 | appears by the way adds up to more than a 100 because people can own more than one device. |
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