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Amazon Nova Foundation Models

Optimize your AI applications with powerful, cost-effective foundation models

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What is Amazon Nova?

 

Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price-performance. Through Amazon Bedrock, businesses can seamlessly build and scale generative AI applications with Nova that are safe, reliable, and cost-effective. Get started today building scalable AI-powered applications with the Amazon Nova user guide. 

 

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Models for all the gen AI you need

Nova accelerates AI innovation across modalities and capabilities - including text, image, video, speech, API calling, and agentic AI.

Understanding Models

Amazon Nova understanding models are designed to comprehend diverse inputs, including text, images, video, documents, and code. These models excel in powering interactive chat interfaces, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, agentic applications, video analysis, and UI workflow automation solutions. There are four Amazon Nova understanding models - Nova Micro, Nova Lite, Nova Pro, and Nova Premier - each optimized for different needs while delivering text outputs. Together, they provide users with flexible options to balance capability, accuracy, speed, and cost.

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Image Generation

Amazon Nova Canvas is a high-quality image generation model that offers broad customization and control features for builders in advertising, marketing, entertainment, and retail industries. As one of the most cost-effective image generation models available today, it excels in generating images for ads, marketing assets, stock images, social media, and e-commerce content, making it ideal for B2C use cases with its core strengths in cost, volume, and reliability.

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Video Generation

Amazon Nova Reel is a video generation model designed to democratize creative content generation. It specializes in producing lifestyle videos and b-roll for consumer use cases, making it ideal for ambient content and product videos. With its unique combination of cost-effectiveness and extended video length capabilities, Amazon Nova Reel delivers video content at low price points, making video generation accessible to businesses of all sizes.

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Speech-to-speech

Amazon Nova Sonic is a state-of-the-art speech understanding and generation model that delivers natural, human-like conversational AI with low latency and industry-leading price-performance. The model offers fluid dialog handling, adaptive speech response, content moderation, API actuation, and RAG-based knowledge grounding while offering highly adaptive and engaging user experience. 

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Building Computer Agents

Amazon Nova Act is a new AI model trained to perform actions autonomously within a web browser—such as clicking elements, selecting dropdowns, searching, and answering questions about the screen. With the Amazon Nova Act SDK, available as a research preview, you can build reliable agents that break down complex browser workflows into smaller, dependable commands.

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Compare Amazon Nova models

Text to Text

Amazon Nova Micro

A text-only model with the lowest latency at a very low cost. It has a max token capacity of 128k, supports 200+ languages, and can be fine-tuned.

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Understanding

Nova Lite

A multimodal model that processes image, video, and text with lightning-fast speed. Max token of 300k, supports 200+ languages, and can be fine-tuned.

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Understanding

Nova Pro

Our best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. It has a max token of 300k, supports 200+ languages, and can be fine-tuned.

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Understanding

Nova Premier

Our most capable model designed for complex tasks and serves as a teacher for model distillation. It has a max token if 1M and supports 200+ languages.

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Creative

Nova Canvas

An image generation model with customization and control features. It accepts up to 1,024 input characters, supports English, and fine-tuning.

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Creative

Nova Reel

A video generation model from text or image inputs. It accepts up to 512 input characters and supports English language.

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Speech

Nova Sonic

Real-time, human-like voice conversations with natural interactions. It has a max token of 300k and supports English (US, UK) and Spanish.

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Agents

Nova Act

Available through an SDK, this model is trained to perform actions autonomously within a web browser, including clicking elements, searching, and answering questions.

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Partner offerings built with Amazon Nova

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Infosys

Infosys Event AI transforms live events into accessible knowledge assets including intelligent summaries, real-time transcriptions, and an interactive chat assistant

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Fortinet

Fortinet's new support chatbot, using Amazon Nova Micro, helps companies efficiently access complex product documentation while reducing inference costs.

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FAQ

To start building generative AI applications with Amazon Nova, you can access the models through an API using Amazon Bedrock. Learn more about building applications with Amazon Nova. 

Amazon Nova understanding models support 200+ languages, and are optimized for 15 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, and Hebrew.

Common use cases with Amazon Nova are aligned to understanding behaviors, including chat assistants, summarization, and intelligent document processing. In addition, customers are rapidly generating images, videos, and speech. 

Nova understanding models support text and vision fine-tuning, to be able to understand and generate custom text, images, and video content. Customers can fine-tune Amazon Nova on their proprietary data – including unique datasets and brand characteristics– to generate fully customized outputs and creative content that align with your specific requirements and style guidelines. 
  • Amazon Nova comes with built-in content moderation filters to limit generation of harmful content and misuse.
  • Amazon Nova Canvas, Nova Reel, and Nova Sonic come with invisible watermarks embedded within the visual or audio content. These can be used for traceability and accountability for AI generated content, and to reduce spread of disinformation.
  • AWS offers uncapped intellectual property (IP) indemnity coverage for outputs of Amazon Nova models – protecting customers from third-party claims alleging IP infringement or misappropriation (including copyright claims) by the outputs generated by these Amazon Nova models.
  • Amazon Nova integrates seamlessly with Amazon Bedrock, leveraging advanced automated reasoning in Bedrock Guardrails to establish and enforce robust safety boundaries. This integration helps ensure that AI-generated outputs consistently comply with organizational policies, security protocols, and regulatory requirements while maintaining operational efficiency.