Mark Yoshitake

Director/GM, AI Developer and Agent Initiatives, Amazon. Previously, leadership @SmartThings, @YouTube, @GoogleArts, tea lover.

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

Congrats to my team for successfully demoing Hey Disney! at #CES2023 and being recognized by outlets like @WSJ as one of the best innovations at the show. Excited by positive reactions attendees had, prep for launch. Feature video/story from @CNETNews https://t.co/15I8uBepjs

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

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[Alexa Developers @alexadevs]

💬 #AlexaLive keynote sound bite ⬇️

“We’re enhancing Alexa Conversations to make customer experiences not only natural, but resilient to the variability of human speech patterns.” -- @markyoshitake

Streaming now: https://t.co/Bp8jnE12JI

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

New: Excited for our team's announcement of "Hey Disney" with your favorite characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and more! Our first Custom Assistant on Echo Devices!

[Alexa Developers @alexadevs]

New at #AlexaLive: Add a new shopping experience to your skill with Alexa Shopping Actions. Customers can add items to their Amazon cart without leaving the skill. 🛒

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

Excited about the work we are doing: https://t.co/13CrHn9nxi

[Alexa Developers @alexadevs]

New at #AlexaLive: APL Widgets. Widgets are rich, customizable, glanceable, self-updating views of your skill content, accessible from the home screen.

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

@AlaskaAir I paid for an upgrade to sit in a single row with my family only find a broken chair with no table. Flight attendant "oh, sorry, you can sit in another chair?" #basics

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Today we are announcing a set of concrete commitments to build sustainable equity for Google’s Black community, and make our products and programs helpful in the moments that matter most to Black users.
https://t.co/6qcDBHOU61

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

👇Thread: Marketplace 100.
Here's a16z's list of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies -- using credit card data from our friends at Second Measure.

https://t.co/h5ojLgTPSv

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

@MorganStanley where do you publish outages? Do you know if known issues right now?

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

@Quan @alexadevs totally! does it have a screen? does it have bluetooth? DM me, would love to catch up.

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

What will creators do with this? #opensource @alexadevs Excited for what's next with AI/voice/visuals, and thank you to all our engineers and partners!

[Alexa Developers @alexadevs]

The Alexa Smart Screen SDK v2.0 is now generally available! The SDK enables device makers to bring rich Alexa visual experiences to voice-enabled products with screens. Register for our webinar and learn more here: https://t.co/TSOkJyIbH8

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

@alexadevs What will creators do with this? #opensource excited about seeing more visual, voice forward devices!

[Andrew Gebhart @GebAndrew]

Amazon's making moves at world domination. A roundup of today's crazy announcements https://t.co/wVGLL8Odqa via @CNET by @benfoxrubin & @RogerWCheng

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

Today we introduced the Alexa Presentation Language (APL), a new design language that make it easy to create visually rich skills for Alexa devices with screens. Learn more and apply for the developer preview: https://t.co/6YxJPofo8f

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

@thurrott Thanks for covering and great article

[David Carnoy @DavidCarnoy]

Amazon now lets you turn your Fire tablet into an Echo Show https://t.co/qyoFxkX8Hj via @CNET

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

@DavidCarnoy @CNET Great article, and thanks for coverage.

[Mark Yoshitake @markyoshitake]

Echo on Fire Tablet, we think it's pretty cool: https://t.co/4v1hLWFfdh