The biggest makers of voice command-powered devices are jockeying for prominence at CES this week, with Google and Amazon both using eye-popping numbers to tour their scale to the world. Today, in fact, Google revealed a seriously impressive number. One billion — that’s the number of devices the search giant says its Google Assistant virtual helper will be available on by the end of this month. If you compare that to Alexa, the comparable assistive software made by its staunchest rival in this space (Amazon), it’s available on some 100 million Alexa devices. All things being equal, that would make Google Assistant’s install base 10 times larger than Alexa’s.
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