Amazon Nova

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Initial Nova family launched at AWS re:Invent 2024. Nova Pro (multimodal, 300K context), Nova Lite (multimodal, 300K, low cost), Nova Micro (text-only, 128K, fastest). Also includes Nova Canvas (image generation) and Nova Reel (video generation). Superseded as the AGI org's flagship by Nova Premier (April 2025) and then Nova 2 (December 2025).

AA Intelligence Index v4.0: 13 (Pro), 10 (Micro). AA's Nova Pro page now points users to Nova 2 Pro Preview as the current recommended replacement. Proprietary, available via Amazon Bedrock.

Parameter counts below are third-party estimates by Alan D. Thompson (LifeArchitect.ai) — Amazon does not publish official parameter counts for the Nova family.

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Model Details

Parameters (est.) ~ 90B
Context window 300,000
AA Intelligence 13

Variants

Name Parameters Notes
Nova Pro ~ 90B Multimodal, 300K context; AA v4.0 = 13
Nova Lite ~ 20B Multimodal, 300K context, low cost
Nova Micro ~ 11B Text-only, 128K context; AA v4.0 = 10
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