With Nova Forge, AWS gives companies a path to build foundation-class models without GPUs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leaning into the growing trend toward custom models with a new service that it says will let enterprises bring more personalization and internal knowledge. 

The move comes alongside the release of AWS's new models as part of its Nova family, which expands the capabilities of its reasoning models.

Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Sonic and Nova 2 Omni update the first Nova models AWS announced last year.

Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model optimized for everyday tasks that can process text, images and videos to generate text. Nova 2 Pro, which AWS said is its most intelligent reasoning model, can handle complex tasks such as coding agents, long-range planning and problem-solving. It can act as a “teacher” model for distillation projects. Nova 2 Sonic is a speech-to-speech model, while Nova 2 Omni enables organizations to generate both text ...