AWS re:Invent Day 2: Amazon Launches New AI Models, Trainium3 Chips, and On-Prem AI Factories

AWS re:Invent Day 2 delivered major AI updates, including new Nova models, Trainium3 servers, and Bedrock’s largest model expansion.

The second day of AWS re:Invent arrived with the same loud energy as opening day, as Amazon pushed deeper into AI hardware, new models, and tools that promise faster building, faster training, and faster modernization.

Here are the top takeaways from the latest round of announcements.

New Nova models and the “open training” approach

Amazon rolled out four new models in the Nova family, all tuned for different AI needs such as advanced reasoning, multimodal tasks, code generation, and agent-style automation.

The company also highlighted Nova Forge, which lets customers work directly with Amazon’s pre-trained checkpoints and combine them with their own data. The idea is to give organizations more control without forcing them to build models from scratch.

Amazon said early adopters ...