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AWS offers Amazon Nova, a family of AI understanding models available through Amazon Bedrock, that accept text, images, and video as input and generate text responses covering tasks such as summarization, document analysis, question answering, and conversational AI. The Nova 2 generation — including Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, and Nova 2 Sonic (speech-to-speech) — launched in December 2025 and remains under active development.

Details

The Amazon Nova understanding model family includes Nova Micro (text-only, lowest cost), Nova Lite and Nova Pro (multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and documents), and Nova Premier (launched April 2025, but placed in legacy status in March 2026). The Nova 2 generation, announced in December 2025, includes Nova 2 Lite and Nova 2 Pro with enhanced reasoning, and Nova 2 Sonic, a speech-to-speech model supporting real-time voice conversations in five languages. Nova 2 Omni, a unified multimodal model accepting text, images, video, and speech and generating both text and images, was released in preview in December 2025. Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Sonic, Nova Forge, and Nova Act remain under active development as of mid-2026, distinct from the wound-down Premier, Omni, Canvas, and Reel models.

Products affected

Amazon NovaAmazon Bedrock

Sources & Evidence

News Article

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ai/responsible-ai/nova-canvas/overview.html

News Article

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-nova-2-omni-preview/

News Article

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/what-is-nova.html

News Article

https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2025/12/02/aws-unveils-nova-2-model-family-nova-forge-training-platform-and-nova-act-agent-service/

News Article

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html

News Article

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-2-sonic-next-generation-speech-to-speech-model-for-conversational-ai/

News Article

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-nova-foundation-models-bedrock/

News Article

https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/nova/

Company Disclosure

Company DisclosureVerified

Amazon Nova foundation models

AWS·Nov 2025

https://aws.amazon.com/nova/models/

Company DisclosureVerified

Amazon makes it easier for developers and tech enthusiasts to explore Amazon Nova, its advanced Gen AI models

Amazon News·Mar 2025

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/amazon-nova-website-sdk

Company Disclosure

Introducing Amazon Nova foundation models: Frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance

AWS News Blog·Dec 2024

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-frontier-intelligence-and-industry-leading-price-performance/

Cite this record

Trace Foundation. (2026). AWS (Amazon Web Services): AWS offers Amazon Nova, a family of AI understanding models available through Amazon Bedrock, that accept text, images, and video as input and generate text responses covering tasks such as summarization, document analysis, question answering, and conversational AI. The Nova 2 generation — including Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, and Nova 2 Sonic (speech-to-speech) — launched in December 2025 and remains under active development (data as of 2026-09-02) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/54e1531b-1c75-4f77-a74f-530d56cf7a0d. Accessed October 13, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/54e1531b-1c75-4f77-a74f-530d56cf7a0d
Data as of: September 2, 2026
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