Alexa+ promises all sorts of new interactions, many of which might seem like repeat offerings if you’ve already been living with this stuff in your home. After mentioning the wake word, you can converse with Alexa+ as you would with a friend,

Gemini Code Assistant, previously available only for enterprise customers, will give everyone access to a "practically unlimited" AI coding assistant, the company said in a press release. Gemini Code Assistant allows 180,000 completions per month, which Google says is 90 times more code completions than other free coding assistants on the market.

The tech giant revealed Alexa+ during a product-launch event on Wednesday, noting it will use large-language models (LLMs) including Amazon’s own Nova models and those from its