Amazon’s new Fire tablets have AI inside

Amazon conscionable announced a new Fire HD 8 tablet, and similar galore caller gadgets successful 2024, generative AI-powered tools are among the large caller features. But you won’t needfully request to bargain the caller Fire HD 8 to effort them; Amazon says they’re coming to the Fire HD 10 and Fire Max 11 tablets, too.

The new AI tools are things you’ve astir apt seen before. There’s a penning assistance feature, which volition assistance you polish up your penning and is built into the device’s keyboard. You’ll beryllium capable to get webpage summaries erstwhile utilizing Amazon’s Silk browser. And you’ll beryllium capable to make a wallpaper from a prompt. Amazon says the tools volition commencement rolling retired to “all compatible Fire tablets aboriginal this month.”

Amazon is besides rumored to beryllium launching an upgraded Alexa that you mightiness person to wage for, but that wasn’t included arsenic portion of this announcement.

The caller Fire HD 8 has immoderate improved specs that look to person trickled down from 2022’s Fire 8 HD Plus, including 3GB of RAM (up from 2GB — the boost might help with the caller AI features) and a 5MP backmost camera (up from 2MP). Like with the erstwhile Fire 8 HD, Amazon is besides promising up to 13 hours of artillery beingness and is offering 32GB oregon 64GB of retention (with the enactment to grow that with a microSD card).

You tin bargain the caller Fire 8 HD right now successful black, emerald, and hibiscus. The tablets technically person a starting terms of $99.99, but they’re already connected merchantability up of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, meaning you tin get the basal exemplary for astir fractional disconnected astatine $54.99.

Amazon mightiness besides motorboat updated Kindle e-readers soon, arsenic a Spanish retailer precocious listed a new-entry level model with a brighter screen.