The Amazon’s Alexa Fund supports now startups

Amazon started Alexa box in 2015 The return of vocal startups at an early stage. With the appearance of large language models and the release of Amazon Alexa+, along with A family of multimedia artificial intelligence modelsThe Fund now wants to expand its scope and invest more in the startups of artificial intelligence.

In a blog post, Amazon shared with Techcrunch before publishing, Paul Bernard, the Alexa Fund leader, explained that the company now wants to invest in areas including devices that support artificial intelligence and smart agents.

Bernard said: “While the task of the Alexa Fund box has evolved beyond the initial focus on sound technology over the years, rapid developments in artificial intelligence provides a turning point that allows the fund to adopt new technology while continuing to present its original task,” Bernard said.

“As such, the fund was investing in startups that are offered in the latest model in devices that support artificial intelligence, obstetric media, smart agents, emerging structure of artificial intelligence, and more.

Inves the fund in four new startups operating in various fields:

• Ninjatechi aiThis is a company of artificial intelligence for every person containing Chatbot with possibilities for creating software, photos, videos, deep search, and interviews for you. Just like AI Assistant platforms, including Quora’s Poe, Ninjatech AI provides access to models from Openai, Meta, Anthropic, Google and Deepseek. Amazon said that the company runs its infrastructure on AWS.
• honor: HEDRA is an AI media company that allows users to create photos, sound and video through its studio. The company recently launched The letter 3, Amnesty International for various forms of content creation. Last year, the company raised $ 10 million from A16z Games Speedrun, ABSTRACT and Index Ventures.
• silverArio is the application of family management that works for Amnesty International to deal with scheduling and tasks. The company has established a school email decoding unit to create events and business elements through school communication. Bernard said he admired the application because he understood the personal context behind the tasks. It is worth noting that startups are like Display and Maple It also works to solve the management of the families’ schedule.
• Heyboss: It is difficult to escape from the phrase “VIBE” online, especially if you follow technology. Heyboss is an emerging company in the same category that allows you to create web sites, applications, games or preliminary models as soon as they are described. It includes other startups operating in the same region Indicatorand lovableand reAnd Blit.

For Amazon, these startups also become a way to put a cloud and assual intelligence. Many of these startups get early arrival to the Amazon private application programming facades and SDKS from the Amazon and become a test ground for the e -commerce company. Amazon also said it provides access to senior executives or opportunities with Amazon Business.

All major companies working in artificial intelligence try to finance promising startups that can use artificial intelligence models. The startup box has been supported at Openai Many companies in the healthcare, robots, Edtech and Creative Tools sectors. Participate in partnership with Menlo Ventures to create an investment vehicle for startups. Google recently supported companies like Lock the screen platform and Webtoons platform toonsutra He gave them access to various artificial intelligence models.