> It’s interesting that a car manufacturer is faster than Apple, Amazon, or Google at offering a voice assistant with a generative LLM. I really thought the pe

> It’s interesting that a car manufacturer is faster than Apple, Amazon, or Google at offering a voice assistant with a generative LLM. I really thought the personal voice assistant was dead (see Amazon below) but your comment makes me wonder if maybe these generative LLMs will revive it. Amazon seems to have taken the tack with Alexa for which a generative LLM makes sense (a broadly-scoped personal assistant) and indeed seem to have dropped the ball. They also recently cut way back on their Alexa development and team so maybe they have realized that the personal assistant path isn't that useful, at least right now. Google I don't know...whatever they do they will abandon, of course, but I suspect they will find a way to jam a generative LLM into their voice assistant thingy just because they need the branding. This is where your observation is particularly on point. Apple junked most of that from Siri after they bought it and, given how poorly it was received, doesn't seem to have been particularly interested in the "personal assistant" whether in a standalone device or as a built in feature in their handsets. They seem to be (slowly) pushing their models into product rather than having a "primary entrance".