What you need to know about Amazon Nova Act: the new AI agent SDK challenging OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The sleeping giant has awoken! For a while, it seemed like Amazon was playing catchup in the race to offer its users — particularly the millions of developers building atop Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s cloud infrastructure — compelling first-party AI models and tools. But in late 2024, it debuted its own internal foundation model family, Amazon Nova, with text, image and even video generation capabilities, and last month saw a new Amazon Alexa voice assistant powered in part by Anthropic’s Claude family of models. Then, on Monday, the e-commerce and cloud giant’s artificial general intelligence division Amazon AGI has announced the release of Amazon Nova Act, an experimental developer kit for building AI agents that can navigate the web and complete tasks autonomously, powered by a custom, proprietary version of Amazon’s Nova large language model (LLM). Oh, ... Read full article.