Amazon delays Alexa.com's launch to "no sooner than July 31" — as OpenAI preps to topple Google Chrome's dominance in the coming weeks

Panos Panay, senior vice president of devices and services at Amazon.com Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon has rebooted Alexa with artificial intelligence, marking the biggest overhaul of the voice-activated assistant since its introduction over a decade ago. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

In February, Amazon was set to launch Alexa.com, a web-based version of its Alexa virtual assistant, in June. However, the company has seemingly pushed this deadline further into the future; we're likely not going to access the feature "no sooner than July 31 (via The Washington Post)."

While details highlighted in Amazon's internal documents remain slim at best, it seems the company underestimated the work it needed to factor in for a successful launch.