It’s been nearly a year since Amazon first launched the new, AI-enhanced Alexa+, but until now, a key feature has been missing: the ability to access and chat with Alexa+ on the web. Now it appears Amazon has fulfilled that promise, with an Alexa+ web portal finally going live—for at least some Alexa+ early access users, anyway—at Alexa.com. The new Alexa+ web portal will look familiar to anyone who’s accessed ChatGPT or Google Gemini on the web. A big chatbox sits front and center, with a friendly “Hello Ben, how can I help?” heading, along with buttons that reveal suggested prompts (“Create a plan for my next getaway,” “Teach me a surprising fun fact,” “Add an event to my calendar,” “Create an image of a dinosaur,” “Book a table at a nearby restaurant”) on mouse rollover. On the left side of the screen are shortcuts to your Alexa+ chat history (good for revisiting Alexa+ discussions you’ve had on an Echo speaker), smart home controls (just basic ones, mind you), your calendar, lists, reminders, and uploaded files. That last feature—the ability to upload files to Alexa+—is a big one, as it allows you to do things like upload resumes for Alexa to tinker with, or any other documents you’d like Alexa to analyze. Just for fun, I uploaded a configuration file for the Jellyfin media player installation on my Raspberry Pi, and Alexa+ did a reasonably good job of sifting through the code and offering optimization suggestions. (Alexa+ gets a decent chunk of its AI smarts courtesy of Anthropic’s Claude.) I then picked up the conversation on an Echo speaker, allowing Alexa and me to continue batting around Jellyfin ideas. Another nifty thing about the new Alexa+ web portal is that it makes Alexa+’s ability to compose letters and other documents a lot more useful. Before, if you asked Alexa+ to write (for example) a thank-you letter to a friend, there was no easy way to grab the text and put it into a text editor for fine-tuning. (It’s possible to access Alexa+ chats in the Alexa app, but it’s a tedious process.) With the web portal, you can just click the Copy button beneath any Alexa+ response, just as you can with ChatGPT or Gemini. The Alexa+ web portal makes it easy to copy text from your chats. Ben Patterson/Foundry Granted, the Alexa+ web interface is fairly bare-bones compared to what you get with ChatGPT or Gemini. There are no custom GPTs or Gemini “gems,” nor any tools like a canvas, a video generator, or a “guided learning” mode. And while I could upload Word documents, text files, and PDFs via the Alexa+ web interface, Excel files were off-limits, as was the JSON file for my Jellyfin configuration (I had to convert it to a plain text file). But as with ChatGPT and Gemini, I’d expect the Alexa+ website to add more features over time, and being able to chat with Alexa+ at all over the web makes for a big improvement. It’s also worth noting that Alexa+ is still in early access mode, meaning its free for everyone. Eventually, Alexa+ will be free for Prime members and $19.99 a month for everyone else. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart speakers .