Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable multimodal foundation model for complex tasks such as processing long documents, videos, large codebases, and executing multistep agentic workflows. It is also our most capable teacher model and can be used with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation to create custom distilled models for specific needs. Nova Premier extends the capabilities available from Amazon Nova understanding models with several key improvements, including: Nova Premier is also the fastest and most cost-effective proprietary model in its intelligence tier in Amazon Bedrock. With Nova Premier and Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation, you can now create highly capable, cost-effective, and low-latency versions of Nova Pro, Lite, and Micro for your specific needs. For example, we used Nova Premier to distill Nova Pro for complex tool selection and API calling. The distilled Nova Pro had a 20% higher accuracy for API invocations compared to the base model and consistently matched the performance of the teacher, with the speed and cost benefits of Nova Pro. Nova Premier is available in Amazon Bedrock in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) through [cross-Region inference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/cross-region-inference.html). Learn more about Amazon Nova on the [AWS News Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nova-premier-our-most-capable-model-for-complex-tasks-and-teacher-for-model-distillation), [Amazon Nova product page](https://aws.amazon.com/nova/), or [Amazon Nova user guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/userguide). You can try Nova Premier at [nova.amazon.com](https://nova.amazon.com) or get started building with Nova Premier in Amazon Bedrock from the [Amazon Bedrock console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/).