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10 months agoby ao98

Still can't seem to do RAG or otherwise answer questions about a specific URL. Seems kinda useless compared to even copilot or Gemini 2.5 unless I'm missing something.

I asked it to summarize this thread [0] and it just said "that thread is about the monthly "who's hiring"' on HN", not even close.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533516

10 months agoby _huayra_

Here's the actual link to the product: https://nova.amazon.com/chat

10 months agoby ao98

I don't really understand where this fits in the market? It's not as intelligent as the pack leaders and is about onpar with GPT-4o mini. When comparing it to GPT-4o mini further, while it is a bit faster, GPT-4o mini is a lot more cheaper [Source: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/nova-pro/providers].

In terms of value for money, I would probably go with GPT-4o mini and not Nova Pro. Maybe Amazon feels that it needs to have their own offering to stay relevant?

10 months agoby icu

Seems like there's going to be some trademark conflict with https://novaapp.ai/ ?

10 months agoby kristjansson

Is every multi billion dollar tech company working on this ?

The image generation looks like it's at least a full year behind.

10 months agoby 999900000999

Let them use it to improve Rufus, their in-store AI search. Now that would be invaluable to Amazon customers.

10 months agoby esafak

>> Amazon makes it easier for developers and tech enthusiasts to explore Amazon Nova

Well, you don't. Can't find a simple way to try it out. Not that i expected anything else. The only thing saving AWS in the AI wave seems to be their deal with Anthropic.

10 months agoby siva7

more undifferentiated offerings, and people don't want to admit AI is plateauing

10 months agoby asdev

Well they certainly have the GPUs for that.

I wonder if this will squeeze cloud GPU pricing even more or it's already priced.

10 months agoby hu3

Is this just an "us too!" offering? What is the purpose of this exactly? Promo project?

10 months agoby nyarlathotep_

If I had a cent for every brand named Nova, I'd have a dollar.

10 months agoby Jotalea

> Thank you for your interest in Amazon Nova. At this time, we are only accepting customers in the US.

10 months agoby theshrike79

Probably a no go for Spanish speakers.

10 months agoby ozten

The UI is kind of horrendous. Not even a dark mode. I also have a hard time imagining wanting to use BedRock at this point. Still can't use any of the leading models besides Claude, plus IAM config is comparatively painful, and you have to setup bedrock-access-gateway to get an OpenAI compatible API for tools that expect that API setup.

10 months agoby ZeroCool2u