In Brief Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced in a message to staff on Wednesday that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis will lead a new AI-focused organization within the company. This organization will be responsible for Amazon’s AI models like Nova, as well as silicon development and quantum computing, which help make AI tools faster and more efficient. DeSantis has spent 27 years at Amazon, including eight years as an SVP for AWS, the cloud provider that powers about one-third of the internet. At AWS’s r ...

Core Insights - Amazon is expanding its Nova portfolio with four new models and introducing an "open training" service for organizations to create custom model variants [1] - The Nova 2 models are noted for their industry-leading price-performance in various applications including reasoning, multimodal processing, conversational AI, code generation, and agentic tasks [1] - Nova Forge is a new service that allows companies to build their own operational models [1]