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Amazon Nova Understanding Models

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Amazon Nova Understanding Models

Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro are state-of-the-art models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance. 

  • Amazon Nova Micro is a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at a very low cost. 
  • Amazon Nova Lite is a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs to generate text outputs.
  • Amazon Nova Pro is a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. 

Amazon Nova understanding models support over 200 languages, text and vision fine-tuning, and easy integration with proprietary data and applications through Amazon Bedrock features like Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Bedrock Agents. Using the appropriate model and techniques like distillation, you can get the optimal intelligence, latency, and costs for your needs with Amazon Nova understanding models. 

Key capabilities

Amazon Nova understanding models deliver state-of-the-art text and visual intelligence, with native support for plain text, documents, image, and video understanding. 

Amazon Nova Lite, Micro, and Pro are among the fastest and most cost-effective models in their respective intelligence classes.

Amazon Nova understanding models excel at in-context learning (ICL) and grounding responses based on contextual data provided in approaches like RAG. This is seen in Amazon Nova model scores in the Comprehensive RAG Benchmark (CRAG) evaluation. Customers can easily integrate Amazon Nova understanding models with their proprietary data and applications using Amazon Bedrock features like Bedrock Knowledge Bases.

New gen AI applications are increasingly using AI agents to interact with external services and APIs, and to perform tasks in the customer’s environment. Amazon Nova models excel at agentic workflows and are the state-of-the-art on on benchmarks that evaluate this capability, like Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL), VisualWebBench, and Mind2Web.
 

Amazon Nova understanding models are fast and cost-effective for a wide variety of tasks. With new latency-optimized inference options, enterprises can achieve even faster response times for their mission-critical AI applications without compromising quality.

Evaluations

To learn more about Amazon Nova understanding models, visit the Amazon Nova user guide.

  • Amazon Nova Micro
  • Amazon Nova Lite
  • Amazon Nova Pro

The numbers for other models are a mix of self-reported and measured evaluations. For a more detailed overview of evaluations, please refer to the Amazon Nova tech report

Amazon Nova Pro video understanding in action

In this demo, we show how Amazon Nova models can power computer Agents, which plan and execute multi-step actions, using the browser and screen-based user interfaces as universal tools to automate tasks for end customers. Let's see an example of how a Sales Representative could interact with an Amazon Nova-powered computer agent to use SAP S/4Hana. SAP is one of the most widely used SaaS ERP systems.