Amazon has launched a brand new AI mannequin, Nova Act, which is designed to carry out duties — like on-line purchasing — in your browser. For now it’s solely out there to builders in a “analysis preview,” however Amazon can be increasing entry to its different Nova AI fashions by means of an internet portal, making them simpler to seek out and use.
Nova Act is a brand new mannequin whose operate sounds just like OpenAI’s Operator agent. Amazon says Act can perform net searches, make purchases, or reply questions on what’s on the display, together with the choice to carry out duties on a schedule. It may acknowledge extra detailed directions — equivalent to telling it “don’t settle for the insurance coverage upsell” whereas making a purchase order. Act is presently solely accessible to builders, however Amazon says it’s already being put to make use of finishing up some on-line duties within the upgraded Alexa Plus assistant.
Act is the primary product to be launched by Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Labs, which says its “dream” is for brokers to “carry out wide-ranging, advanced, multi-step duties like organizing a marriage or dealing with advanced IT duties to extend enterprise productiveness.” Amazon and OpenAI are removed from the one firms chasing AI brokers proper now, within the hope that individuals are prepared to pay for AI assistants able to performing duties reasonably than merely answering questions or producing Ghibli artwork.
Act joins the opposite 5 Nova fashions first introduced in December 2024, which embody a trio of “understanding” fashions, together with picture and video turbines. Rather than claiming to supply probably the most highly effective AI fashions round, Amazon has as an alternative emphasised the pace and worth of the Nova suite, which it says are “not less than 75 p.c inexpensive” than comparable rivals.
Amazon is now including a manner for builders and different folks within the US to extra straight entry these fashions: an internet site that lets them use the fashions to reply queries or generate content material. The fashions had been beforehand solely out there by means of Amazon Bedrock, an AI mannequin platform inside Amazon Web Services that gives entry to Nova alongside third-party fashions from DeepSeek, Anthropic, Meta, and extra. Rohit Prasad, SVP of Amazon AGI, says the positioning is supposed to let builders “rapidly check their concepts with Nova fashions, after which implement them at scale in Amazon Bedrock.”
