Amazon has introduced its new generation of foundation models, known as Amazon Nova, which offer real-world value to customers through generative AI solutions. The goal is to simplify the lives of shoppers, sellers, advertisers, enterprises, and everyone in between.
The new Amazon Nova models are designed to process text, image, and video prompts, enabling users to generate videos, understand documents, or create multimedia content. The models come in different variants, including:
* Amazon Nova Micro: a low-latency text-only model
* Amazon Nova Lite: a very low-cost multimodal model for fast processing of images, videos, and text inputs
* Amazon Nova Pro: a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost
* Amazon Nova Premier: a top-of-the-line model for complex reasoning tasks and custom model development (available in Q1 2025)
* Amazon Nova Canvas: a state-of-the-art image generation model
* Amazon Nova Reel: a state-of-the-art video generation model
These models are designed to be easy to use, cost-effective, and fast. They support over 200 languages and multiple modalities, making them suitable for a wide range of tasks.
Amazon is committed to delivering agentic capabilities, allowing users to interact with their proprietary systems and data through multiple APIs. The company also offers custom fine-tuning and distillation options, enabling users to adapt the models to their specific needs.
The Amazon Nova models are integrated with Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies and Amazon. This allows customers to easily experiment with and evaluate different models to determine the best fit for their applications.
In addition to these features, the Amazon Nova models are optimized for creative content generation, video understanding, and generating additional creative materials. The company is also working on introducing new models in 2025, including a speech-to-speech model and an any-to-any multimodal-to-multimodal model.
At Amazon, responsible AI practices are prioritized, with integrated safety measures and protections built into the models.
Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-nova-artificial-intelligence-bedrock-aws