Amazon unveils ‘Nova’ AI models, looking to make its mark in the generative AI revolution
LAS VEGAS — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy returned to the AWS re:Invent stage on Tuesday morning to make one of the company’s biggest announcements of the day: a set of smartphones called “Nova.” New artificial intelligence basic model.
The Nova model will be available through the company’s Bedrock service alongside popular third-party models in one of the tech giant’s biggest attempts to succeed in artificial intelligence. The company is seeking to overcome perceptions that it has been slow to make progress in the early days of the generative artificial intelligence revolution.
Former AWS CEO Jassy explained that Amazon developed a new model for internal use and decided to share it publicly.
“You want a lot. There’s a lot to do,” he said. “That’s one of the reasons we continue to work on our own cutting-edge models, and those cutting-edge models have made tremendous progress in the last four to five months. We think if we can find value in them, you might be able to find value in them, too. Find value in yourself.
as Amazon detailsthe Nova series includes the following models:
- Amazon Nova Micro, a text-only model that delivers low-latency responses at low cost.
- Amazon Nova Lite, a low-cost multimodal model for processing images, video, and text.
- Amazon Nova Pro, a multi-modal model that combines accuracy, speed, and cost for a variety of tasks.
- Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon describes it as “Amazon’s multi-modal model most capable of performing complex inference tasks and serving as the best teacher for refining custom models.” According to Amazon, Premier will launch in the first quarter of next year.
- Amazon Nova Canva for image generation
- Amazon Nova Reel for video generation.
In addition, Jassy also revealed that two other models, namely a speech-to-speech model and an “any-to-any” model, will be launched next year as part of the Nova plan.
“It’s really intermodal to intermodal,” he said. “So you’ll be able to input text, speech, images, video and output text, speech, images and video. This is the future of building and consuming cutting-edge models.
It’s part of Amazon’s broader effort to deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities to AWS customers while using artificial intelligence to bring new impetus to its cloud business. Jassy said the insight from the company’s internal team is that developers want a wide range of AI models to choose from, and he expects this to continue.
“We’re going to give you the broadest and best functionality you’ll find anywhere,” Jassy said. It “means choice,” he said.
With Nova and other initiatives, Amazon hopes to use artificial intelligence to solidify its position in the cloud market. company Ahead of rivals Microsoft and Google As of the end of the third quarter, the company held a 31% market share in the cloud infrastructure market, according to Synergy Research Group.
AWS Posted revenue of $27.4 billion In the third quarter alone, operating income reached US$10.4 billion, an annual increase of 50%, accounting for more than 60% of Amazon’s overall operating profit.
At this week’s re:Invent conference, the company also highlighted progress on its Trainium and Inferentia AI chips, its Amazon Q AI assistant, and its partnership with Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot.
This is the first re:Invent keynote speech hosted by AWS CEO Matt Garman since he was appointed to lead the cloud division earlier this year. Jassy has not returned to the stage since his annual meeting. Taking over from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Amazon CEO in 2021.
2024-12-03 18:22:00