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Ten university teams selected to participate in Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge

Ten universities. Three continents. Amazon just launched the next battleground for AI agents.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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Amazon is leveraging academic talent globally to advance conversational AI capabilities for complex task completion, potentially accelerating enterprise AI assistant development.

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  1. 10 university teams selected

  2. Teams from 3 continents participating

  3. Focus on multi-step task completion agents

  4. Part of Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge program

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Publisher excerpt: Teams from three continents will compete to develop agents that assist customers in completing multi-step tasks.
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