The virtual assistant is called Q, and it’s designed to be genderless.
Q checks a lot of the boxes that tech companies frequently call upon to justify their own gendered virtual assistants: warmth, helpfulness, a sense of authority.
Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant can’t seem to break out of the female-first image they were made in. By all indications, Q could help with that.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/researchers-make-q-genderless-voice-for-personal-assistants-like-alexa.html