What to know

  • Amazon has launched Nova Premier, its most advanced AI model to date.
  • Nova Premier can process text, images, and videos, with a context length of 1 million tokens.
  • The model is available through Amazon Bedrock and is designed for complex, multi-step tasks.
  • Nova Premier is positioned as a teacher model for distilling smaller, more efficient AI models.

On Wednesday, Amazon introduced Nova Premier, the latest and most capable addition to its Nova series of AI models. Nova Premier is now available through Amazon Bedrock, the company’s platform for AI model development. This model is designed to handle complex tasks that require a deep understanding of context, multi-step planning, and precise execution across various tools and data sources.

Nova Premier can process input in the form of text, images, and videos, but it does not support audio. One of its standout features is a context length of 1 million tokens, which allows it to analyze very large documents or code bases—up to about 750,000 words at once. This makes it suitable for enterprise applications that demand high capacity and advanced reasoning.

Amazon has positioned Nova Premier as a teacher model for a process called model distillation. This process enables the creation of smaller, faster, and more cost-effective models that retain much of the capability of the larger model. For example, using Nova Premier to distill Nova Pro resulted in a 20% increase in accuracy for API calls, while maintaining the speed and cost benefits of the smaller model.

In benchmark evaluations, Nova Premier performed well in knowledge retrieval and visual comprehension tasks, such as SimpleQA and MMMU. However, it does not outperform leading competitor models like Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro in coding and scientific benchmarks. Nova Premier also is not classified as a “reasoning” model, meaning it does not take extra time to verify its responses in the way some advanced models do.

Pricing for Nova Premier in Amazon Bedrock is $2.50 per 1 million input tokens and $12.50 per 1 million output tokens. These rates are similar to those of competing models in the market.

Amazon sees AI as a key part of its business growth. CEO Andy Jassy recently stated that the company is developing over 1,000 generative AI applications, with AI revenue growing at a triple-digit rate year-over-year and contributing to a multi-billion-dollar annual revenue run rate.

Via: techcrunch