Not surprising, imo—voice assistants got big at a time when there was no way to implement them except by what I would call a massive catalog of hacks. Now that

Not surprising, imo—voice assistants got big at a time when there was no way to implement them except by what I would call a massive catalog of hacks. Now that LLMs with really good NLU for major languages exist, Amazon must have made a determination that either voice assistants are no longer worth actively developing, or that LLMs ought to serve as the core of the NLU component of their dialogue systems.