Amazon projects Alexa+ cloud costs of about $1.7 billion in 2026, weighs cuts to AI agent Moonraker
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Internal planning documents show Amazon considering cheaper in-house models and a scaled-back Moonraker as Alexa+ costs nearly triple Amazon ’s upgraded voice assistant is getting smarter. It is also getting a lot more expensive to run. Internal planning documents show Amazon projected approximately $1.7 billion in AWS cloud costs for Alexa+ in 2026. That figure nearly triples the prior year’s total. The documents also show Amazon weighing two cost-cutting moves. One is leaning less on Anthropic ’s models. The other is spending less on Moonraker, an AI agent project tied to Alexa+.
Source: Crypto Briefing
