Amazon Nova foundation models
Amazon announced their Amazon Nova foundation models on December 3, 2024. The main features are low cost and low latency.
Amazon Nova
Micro
- very low cost
- text-only
- great for summarization, translation, and classification
- 128k token context
Lite
- Multimodal
- Multiple images
- Up to 30 minutes of video
- 300k token context
- Find-tuning with model distillation is available
Pro
- Similar to Lite but with more accuracy
- Serves as a teacher model to distill custom varians of Lite and Micro
Premier
- Availability in early 2025
Simon Willison compares them to the Google Gemini family of models.
Costs for micro are $0.035 per million input and $0.14 for output, $0.06 and $0.24 for lite, and $0.80 and $3.20 for Pro. The micro model is slightly cheaper than Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B and appears to be the cheapest model available.