Alexa for Shopping adds 100+ new capabilities to make shopping even faster and easier
Amazon announced more than 100 new capabilities for Alexa for Shopping, its AI shopping assistant. Customers can now handle lists, gift registries, Subscribe & Save, payments, memberships and many other account actions by asking Alexa.
Amazon says over 400 million customers have used Alexa for Shopping in the last 12 months, and the number using its agentic features has grown more than eight times since the start of the year.
The assistant can research and compare products, show up to a year of price history, suggest gifts and track deals. With auto-buy, it can purchase an item for a customer once it hits a target price, and Amazon says it becomes more personalized the more it's used.
Key points
- 100+ new capabilities
- 400M+ customers in the last 12 months
- Agentic feature use up 8x+ this year
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