{"id":321,"date":"2025-04-01T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:42:11","slug":"alexa-plus-just-launched-in-early-access-but-its-missing-some-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Plus just launched in early access, but it\u2019s missing some features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon has officially launched its AI-powered Alexa Plus \u2013 but it\u2019s only available to a \u201csmall number\u201d of customers to start, Amazon spokesperson Kristy Schmidt confirmed to The Verge. As shown <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=206207565011&amp;tag=theverge02-20\" target=\"_blank\">on its early access page<\/a>, Alexa Plus also doesn\u2019t come with all the features Amazon showcased during its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/618262\/amazon-alexa-event-2025-ai-echo-products-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent devices event<\/a>, like the ability to brainstorm gift ideas, order groceries with your voice, or access Alexa Plus in your browser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">There are some other missing features that \u201cdon\u2019t yet meet Amazon\u2019s standards for public release,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/03\/31\/amazon-alexaplus-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report from The Washington Post<\/a>. Alexa Plus still can\u2019t order takeout from Grubhub using context from a conversation, nor can it identify family members around the house and give them reminders to do chores. You won\u2019t be able to access Kids Plus features, such as Stories With Alexa, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For now, Alexa Plus is only available on Echo Show 8, 10, 15, and 21 devices. Amazon\u2019s Alexa Plus early access page shows that the assistant can currently do things like order an Uber, identify objects, draft emails, and search for particular products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Alexa Plus can also summarize uploaded documents at launch, but Amazon\u2019s early access page notes that it\u2019s still working on rolling out the ability to delete these files. \u201cIn the meantime, you can always contact Customer Service to have original attachments deleted,\u201d Amazon says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/619755\/amazon-alexa-ai-upgrade-artificial-intelligence-smart-assistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced Alexa Plus<\/a> in February, which is available on most Echo devices for $19.99 per month, or for free through Prime. You can sign up to be notified about early access for Alexa Plus on <a rel=\"sponsored noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DCCNHWV5?ref=aucc_en_us_web_dom_xaa_evgn_tx_0032&amp;tag=theverge02-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon\u2019s website<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re releasing a bunch of features to start, and we\u2019ll continue to launch new features in waves,\u201d Schmidt said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has officially launched its AI-powered Alexa Plus \u2013 but it\u2019s only available to a \u201csmall number\u201d of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[323,324,325,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-amazon-alexa","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}