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Amazon is back with Nova 2.0, a substantial upgrade over prior Amazon Nova models and demonstrating particular strength in agentic capabilities Amazon has released Nova 2.0 Pro (Preview), its new flagship model; Nova 2.0 Lite, focused on speed and lower cost; and Nova 2.0 Omni, https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1995921468010758267

Amazon makes it easier to build efficient AI agents https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-sagemaker-ai-amazon-bedrock-aws-ai-agents

Amazon has launched a new speech-to-speech model, Nova Sonic 2.0, which ranks #2 on our Artificial Analysis Big Bench Audio Speech Reasoning benchmark! The new model achieves a reasoning accuracy score of 87.1% on Big Bench Audio, placing second overall behind Google’s Gemini https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1995950101068763393

Excited to release Holosoma, our new full-stack, open-source humanoid learning library from Amazon FAR! This has been a huge deal for me — It enables an incredibly fast research cycle. I’m now able to train and deploy a new policy on real hardware in just 20 minutes with an RTX”” / X https://x.com/younggyoseo/status/1995636964142580078

AWS re:Invent 2025: Amazon announces Nova 2, Trainium3, frontier agents https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-re-invent-2025-ai-news-updates

Benchmarks for AWS Nova 2 Lite, released this morning. https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1995926133691613321

@AWSAI’s new Nova 2 Lite model is now live on OpenRouter. 🎥 1M context model with native understanding for images and videos 🧠 Ability to change reasoning effort to low, medium, or high ⚡ Free for 2 weeks exclusively on OpenRouter! https://x.com/OpenRouterAI/status/1995928472108367921

Exciting news: MiniMax-M2 is now part of Amazon Bedrock! ⚡️ Thanks to Matt Garman for highlighting the surge of innovation coming from the open-source community — including MiniMax’s fast-growing momentum and contributions! We’ll continue working closely with the @awscloud AWS https://x.com/MiniMax__AI/status/1996485276609503561

Factual accuracy and reliability, however, is where the models trail: Nova 2.0 series of models do not score well on the AA-Omniscience Index, driven primarily by a high hallucination rate https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1995921479809335354

Introducing Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own frontier models using Nova | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-forge-build-your-own-frontier-models-using-nova/

Since Amazon makes it very hard to experiment with its new models, i haven’t tried Nova 2 Pro yet So it seems fine? They have never been at the cost/performance frontier & the new Nova 2 continues to generally lag other AIs with scattered higher scores on some agentic benchmarks”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1995930932705099925

NVIDIA and AWS Expand Full-Stack Partnership | NVIDIA Blog https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/aws-partnership-expansion-reinvent/

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