Amazon launches Nova Premier, its most succesful AI mannequin but

Amazon on Wednesday released what the corporate claims is essentially the most succesful AI mannequin in its Nova household, Nova Premier.

Nova Premier, which might course of textual content, pictures, and movies (however not audio), is obtainable in Amazon Bedrock, the corporate’s AI mannequin improvement platform. Amazon says that Premier excels at “complicated duties” that “require deep understanding of context, multi-step planning, and exact execution throughout a number of instruments and information sources.”

Amazon introduced its Nova lineup of models in December at its annual AWS re:Invent convention. Over the previous few months, the corporate has expanded the gathering with image- and video-generating fashions in addition to with audio understanding and agentic, task-performing releases.

Nova Premier, which has a context size of 1 million tokens, that means it may possibly analyze round 750,000 phrases in a single go, is weaker on sure benchmarks than flagship fashions from rival AI firms akin to Google. On SWE-Bench Verified, a coding check, Premier is behind Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, and it additionally performs poorly on benchmarks measuring math and science data, GPQA Diamond and AIME 2025.

Nonetheless, in vibrant spots for Premier, the mannequin does effectively on assessments for data retrieval and visible understanding, SimpleQA and MMMU, based on Amazon’s inside benchmarking.

In Bedrock, Premier is priced at $2.50 per 1 million tokens fed into the mannequin and $12.50 per 1 million tokens generated by the mannequin. That’s across the identical worth as Gemini 2.5 Professional, which prices $2.50 per million enter tokens and $15 per million output tokens.

Importantly, Premier isn’t a “reasoning” mannequin. Versus fashions like OpenAI’s o4-mini and DeepSeek’s R1, it may possibly’t take further time and computing to rigorously take into account and fact-check its solutions to questions.

Amazon is pitching Premier as finest for “educating” smaller fashions by way of distillation — in different phrases, transferring its capabilities for a particular use case into quicker, extra environment friendly package deal.

Amazon sees AI as more and more core to its general progress technique. CEO Andy Jassy lately mentioned the corporate is constructing greater than 1,000 generative AI purposes and that Amazon’s AI income is rising at “triple-digit” year-over-year percentages and represents a “multi-billion-dollar annual income run fee.”