AICYLGMar 17, 2025

The Amazon Nova Family of Models: Technical Report and Model Card

Amazon
arXiv:2506.12103v160 citationsh-index: 61
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This work provides a suite of foundation models aimed at improving accuracy, speed, and cost for broad AI applications, though it appears incremental as an extension of existing model families.

The paper introduces the Amazon Nova family of models, including multimodal and specialized variants, which achieve state-of-the-art performance with industry-leading price efficiency across various tasks.

We present Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. 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 Lite is a low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing images, video, documents and text. Amazon Nova Micro is a text-only model that delivers our lowest-latency responses at very low cost. Amazon Nova Canvas is an image generation model that creates professional grade images with rich customization controls. Amazon Nova Reel is a video generation model offering high-quality outputs, customization, and motion control. Our models were built responsibly and with a commitment to customer trust, security, and reliability. We report benchmarking results for core capabilities, agentic performance, long context, functional adaptation, runtime performance, and human evaluation.

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