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Amazon has announced a series of new AI foundation models under a new “Nova” branding that will be available as part of the Amazon Bedrock model library in AWS.
There are three “understanding” models available now, Amazon says in a blog post:
Amazon Nova Micro, a text model that’s “optimized for speed and cost.”
Amazon Nova Lite, a “very low-cost” multimodal model that can take in images, video, and text to generate text.
Amazon Nova Pro, a “highly capable” m
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