Alexa Prize

The Alexa Prize is a competition challenging university teams to build advanced conversational AI agents, focusing on creating engaging and helpful interactions with users. Current research emphasizes multimodal capabilities, integrating visual and textual information using large language models (LLMs) and techniques like object detection (e.g., SAM) and attention mechanisms to improve reasoning and task completion in diverse scenarios, such as smart home control and complex task assistance. This research significantly advances the field of conversational AI, pushing the boundaries of natural language understanding, dialogue management, and human-computer interaction, with implications for the development of more sophisticated and useful virtual assistants.