Amazon Launches Nova Premier AI Model in US

Amazon has launched Nova Premier, the most advanced AI model in its Nova family, available through Amazon Bedrock in several US AWS regions. Nova Premier features multimodal capabilities, processing text, images, and videos, and offers a 1-million-token context window for handling complex tasks and large datasets. While it is not considered a state-of-the-art reasoning model and lags behind leading competitors like Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI's latest releases on some benchmarks, it excels in knowledge retrieval and visual understanding. Amazon positions Nova Premier as ideal for agentic workflows and for distilling specialized smaller models, serving as a 'teacher' in model training. The model is highlighted as the fastest and most cost-effective within its tier on AWS. Pricing remains competitive with other top industry offerings.