AWS – Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable multimodal foundation model for complex tasks such as processing long documents, videos, large codebases, and executing multistep agentic workflows. It is also our most capable teacher model and can be used with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation to create custom distilled models for specific needs.

Nova Premier extends the capabilities available from Amazon Nova understanding models with several key improvements, including:

• Superior intelligence: The model scores 87.4% in the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark for undergraduate-level knowledge, 82.0% on Math500 for mathematic problems, and 84.6% on the CharXiv benchmark for chart understanding.
• Improved agentic capabilities: Nova Premier can perform end-to-end actions on behalf of the user, enabling more complex workflows such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), function calling, and agentic coding. The model scores 86.3% on SimpleQA with RAG, 63.7% on the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL), and 42.4% on SWE-bench Verified for software engineering tasks.
• Longer context: The model offers a context window of one million tokens. This enables analysis of bigger data sets like large codebases, multiple documents and images, documents longer than 400 pages, or 90-minute-long videos.

Nova Premier is also the fastest and most cost-effective proprietary model in its intelligence tier in Amazon Bedrock. With Nova Premier and Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation, you can now create highly capable, cost-effective, and low-latency versions of Nova Pro, Lite, and Micro for your specific needs. For example, we used Nova Premier to distill Nova Pro for complex tool selection and API calling. The distilled Nova Pro had a 20% higher accuracy for API invocations compared to the base model and consistently matched the performance of the teacher, with the speed and cost benefits of Nova Pro.

Nova Premier is available in Amazon Bedrock in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) through cross-Region inference.

Learn more about Amazon Nova on the AWS News Blog, Amazon Nova product page, or Amazon Nova user guide. You can try Nova Premier at nova.amazon.com or get started building with Nova Premier in Amazon Bedrock from the Amazon Bedrock console.