WS Development released images of the building it would construct for Amazon on a pedestrian promenade.
WS Development released images of the building it would construct for Amazon on a pedestrian promenade.

Alexa is heading to the Seaport.

Amazon confirmed Tuesday that it plans to hire 2,000 employees at a new facility in Seaport Square that will focus largely on developing its Alexa voice-activated technology, further cementing Boston’s place as a tech hub for the retail behemoth, and as a center for the burgeoning speech recognition and machine learning industry.

. . . The huge expansion — with an option for the company to lease a second building to house 2,000 more employees if it decides to keep growing in the neighborhood — is the latest, and largest, in a wave of growth by major tech firms pouring into Boston. Companies ranging from homegrown Wayfair and Akamai to Silicon Valley giants Google and Facebook are expanding — or planning to expand — their offices here.

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