the Newest AI Fashions Revolutionizing Enterprise

AWS subscribers now have entry to generative AI fashions that rival GPT-4o. On Dec. 3, throughout the AWS re:Invent occasion held in Las Vegas and on-line, AWS introduced six new mannequin sizes for various use instances within the new Amazon Nova household.

“Inside Amazon, we’ve about 1,000 generative AI purposes in movement, and we’ve had a chicken’s-eye view of what utility builders are nonetheless grappling with,” Rohit Prasad, SVP of Amazon Synthetic Normal Intelligence, mentioned within the press release.

“Our new Amazon Nova fashions are supposed to assist with these challenges for inside and exterior builders and supply compelling intelligence and content material technology whereas additionally delivering significant progress on latency, cost-effectiveness, customization, Retrieval Augmented Technology (RAG), and agentic capabilities.”

What’s Amazon Nova?

Amazon Nova is a line of generative AI basis fashions accessible on AWS’s Amazon Bedrock AI hosting service. Organizations can experiment with three measurement choices at this time:

• Amazon Nova Micro is a text-only mannequin with a fast response time of 210 output tokens per second. Amazon claims it outperforms Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B. Nova Micro is meant for purposes requiring fast responses at a comparatively low price.
• Amazon Nova Lite is one other small mannequin within the Nova household. In contrast to Micro, it might probably analyze both picture, video, or textual content inputs. Corresponding to OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini, Nova Lite is meant for fast summarization and interpretation of charts or video displays. As a result of it might probably perceive photographs on laptop screens and carry out operate calling, Amazon Nova Lite is acceptable for some quasi-autonomous chained behaviors used for “AI agent” duties.
• Amazon Nova Professional is the mid-range mannequin. Amazon mentioned it performs quicker, extra precisely, and prices lower than OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Google’s Gemini 1.5 Professional. Nova Professional can interpret textual content or photographs and helps agentic workflows.

As soon as prospects have a Nova mannequin, they will fine-tune it primarily based on their proprietary information.

Along with the dimensions choices, organizations can even choose from a picture technology mannequin (Amazon Nova Canvas) and a video mannequin (Amazon Nova Reels). Each of those are supposed to create “studio-quality” content material.

• Nova Canvas creates photographs primarily based on textual content or picture prompts. Amazon notes it contains security options akin to watermarking and content material guardrails.
• Nova Reels creates six-second movies, with Amazon planning to increase the potential video size to 2 minutes in “the approaching months.”

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What’s subsequent?

The fourth mannequin within the Nova line, Nova Premier, is not going to be accessible till the primary quarter of 2025. Amazon expects Nova Premier to convey multimodal (video, picture, or text-to-text) interpretation and a hefty information library that organizations can use to coach different fashions.

Additionally, Amazon plans so as to add a mannequin that may reply naturally to spoken dialog. They’re additionally engaged on a multimodal-to-multimodal mannequin to interpret and output textual content, photographs, video, or audio.

Whereas it’s but too early to see how Nova will compete with rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Meta, Amazon scored one main associate in SAP, which gives the fashions on its AI Core platform.

TechRepublic is overlaying AWS re:Invent remotely.