I remember Google getting rid of a large part of it's Assistant team at the same time Amazon laid off a large part of its Alexa team ~18 months ago. You can eve

I remember Google getting rid of a large part of it's Assistant team at the same time Amazon laid off a large part of its Alexa team ~18 months ago. You can even read the "is Amazon closing down Alexa?" rumours in that time. It's pretty clear that LLMs with action hooks were going to take over from the old bespoke request->response methods so i guess they were trying to make sure there was no old guard holding on in the changeover. Only just now are the Alexa+ and Google home Gemini integrations becoming available to pick up where they dropped off in 2023. Apple had a few Siri layoffs but it seemed to keep the ship steady. It'll be interesting to see which was the better long term approach though.