DIGITIMES observes that leading smart home players Google and Amazon have successively integrated generative AI into their voice assistants. Both companies have also competed to launch new software development kits (SDKs) that greatly enhance the capabilities of their voice assistants and streamline access to third-party service application programming interfaces (APIs), laying a solid foundation for introducing AI agents into smart homes.
Against this backdrop, although the two companies pursue different strategies in developing smart homes, their shared ambition to adopt AI agents highlights that this technology will be the next key battleground in the smart home market.
With generative AI incorporated into smart home voice assistants, multimodal learning capabilities and cloud computing power have substantially improved, strengthening the assistants' comprehension and reasoning performance.
Smart home voice assistants see enhanced capabilities and intelligence with GenAI
Computing power and multimodal learning improve platform capabilities
Chart 1: Positive influences from integrating GenAI in smart home applications
Chart 2: Optimization of GenAI voice assistants in smart home application scenarios
New smart home SDK simplifies API retrievals, boosting service acceptance
Amazon new smart home platform and SDK to boost voice assistant capability
Google's plans focus on empowering third-party service developers
