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> Alexa was not developed internally at Amazon - it was bought in, on the cheap That's a flat-out lie itself. A knowledge graph was acquired. Alexa - which, a
by sib 8y ago
> Alexa was not developed internally at Amazon - it was bought in, on the cheap
That's a flat-out lie itself.
A knowledge graph was acquired. Alexa - which, at this point, represents many thousands of years of engineering effort, was most certainly developed in-house.
Source: I wrote the 2-pager recommending the acquisition of said knowledge graph company.