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How Amazon weaned Alexa off Anthropic's pricey models to slash AI costs
Amazon is reducing its reliance on Anthropic's Claude models for Alexa+ to lower AI costs, instead using in-house models and optimizing GPU efficiency. Internal forecasts showed Alexa+'s AWS cloud costs could nearly triple in 2026, prompting cost-saving measures like rerouting requests to cheaper models and improving computing capacity utilization.
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