Now, Amazon has just introduced its new "foundation" AI voice model called Nova Sonic. And it really makes Alexa sound like she's living way in the past.

The company says the voice AI technology, called Amazon Nova Sonic, is cheaper than OpenAI’s version. Amazon has announced a new AI model designed to power voice-to-voice interactions in natural, conversational language.

A new speech-to-speech AI model from Amazon, called Nova Sonic, unifies speech recognition and generation to deliver more natural voice interactions — part of the Seattle tech giant’s broader effort to develop human-like intelligence in competition with Google,