India, Feb. 28 -- Amazon will be releasing companion devices for the latest version of its Alexa voice assistant with Artificial Intelligence (AI) features this fall.

The new features will go beyond answering trivia questions and help consumers complete tasks such as hiring someone to fix an oven for example, CEO Andy Jassy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

The new Alexa, which is also Amazon's most popular virtual assistant, comes at a time when the older one got eclipsed by a wave of AI chatbots in recent years, such as the pioneering ChatGPT from OpenAI, for instance.

This version is an attempt to rekindle consumers' enthusiasm and also generate revenue from subscriptions, online shopping, and other businesses.

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