Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, its most capable foundation model within the Nova family, now accessible through Amazon Bedrock. Building on Nova Lite and Nova Pro, Nova Premier handles complex tasks across text, images, and video, with a one million-token context length that enables it to process long documents and codebases effectively.

Key Features of Amazon Nova Premier

1. Advanced Intelligence: Excels in multi-step reasoning, tool orchestration, and agentic workflows.
2. Model Distillation: Acts as a teacher model for distilling smaller, cost-efficient variants (Nova Pro, Lite, Micro) while retaining high accuracy.
3. Benchmark Dominance: Outperforms previous Nova models across 17 industry benchmarks in text, vision, and agentic tasks.
4. Multi-Agent Collaboration: Powers sophisticated workflows like investment research, coordinating specialized subagents for data synthesis.

Nova Premier is particularly suited for use cases that involve deep contextual understanding, multistep planning, and coordination across various tools and datasets. It also serves as a teacher model in AWS’s Model Distillation framework, enabling the creation of smaller, cost-optimized versions of Nova models tailored for production, such as Nova Micro, Pro, and Lite.

Benchmark evaluations place Nova Premier as the top performer within the Nova family across 17 intelligence benchmarks. It has also demonstrated favorable comparisons with other high-tier models in the industry. According to AWS, it offers notable cost and speed advantages within its class.

One of its demonstrated applications includes multi-agent collaboration for financial research, where Nova Premier acts as a supervisory agent managing subagents, retrieving financial data, and synthesizing insights to support investment professionals. This architecture benefits from Nova Premier’s ability to sequence tasks and route information accurately.

Through model distillation, Nova Premier enables the generation of training data to customize smaller models like Nova Micro for specific scenarios without the overhead of manual labeling. This facilitates more efficient deployment of production-ready models with improved latency and cost profiles.

Early adopters such as Slack, Robinhood, and Snorkel AI report improved performance and reduced operational costs using Nova Premier and the broader Nova model suite.

Nova Premier is currently available in select AWS Regions, including US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon), with pricing based on usage. For further details, access instructions, and documentation, customers can visit the Amazon Bedrock Console or explore more at nova.amazon.com.