Amazon and Google sold 600M+ smart speakers, so why no AGI-era successor?
julianlehr · x · 2026-09-11
The author notes Amazon and Google sold 600M+ Alexa and Nest devices that could barely do anything beyond playing music and setting timers—and even that worked reliably maybe 30% of the time. Now that we effectively have AGI-level intelligence, nobody seems to be building smart speakers around it. The post poses this paradox as a question, sparking discussion on why the voice-hardware entry point has stalled.
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