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michaelbuckbeetoday at 3:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Amazon also uses Claude under the hood for their "Rufus" shopping search assistant which is all over amazon.com.

It's kind of funny, you can ask Rufus for stuff like "write a hello world in python for me" and then it will do it and also recommend some python books.


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antilopertoday at 4:08 PM

> It's kind of funny, you can ask Rufus for stuff like "write a hello world in python for me" and then it will do it and also recommend some python books.

Interesting, I tried it with the chatbot widget on my city government's page, and it worked as well.

I wonder if someone has already made an openrouter-esque service that can connect claude code to this network of chat widgets. There are enough of them to spread your messages out over to cover an entire claude pro subscription easily.

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hboschtoday at 3:49 PM

Are you sure? While Amazon doesn't own a "true" frontier model they have their own foundation model called Nova.

I assume if Amazon was using Claude's latest models to power it's AI tools, such as Alexa+ or Rufus, they would be much better than they currently are. I assume if their consumer facing AI is using Claude at all it would be a Sonnet or Haiku model from 1+ versions back simply due to cost.

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