Amazon introduces Nova Chat

[_huayra_]

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

[ao98]

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

[_fat_santa]

Amazon should have taken a page out of literally everyone elses book and made it public. But no Amazon being Amazon, ofc you have to sign in

[icu]

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?

[atonse]

My guess is it's also about enterprise agreements.

For many larger enterprises, governments, etc, the barrier to trying these things is to pay for them (new contracts, RFPs, etc).

But all of them already have enterprise agreements with MS, Amazon, etc. So there must be some class of customers to whom it's easy to just add this to their AWS bill.

[kristjansson]

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

[oezi]

Nova because it just means 'new' isn't a term anybody can trademark.

[999900000999]

Is every multi billion dollar tech company working on this ?

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

[barbazoo]

Every cloud provider, which makes some sense I guess.

[esafak]

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

[siva7]

>> 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.

[arresin]

If it’s anything like AWS then that makes sense. Why is the UI for all cloud providers absolutely dogshit? Has anyone written about this?

[asdev]

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

[hu3]

Well they certainly have the GPUs for that.

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

[ZeroCool2u]

Do they?? Trying to get GPU's from AWS at work is like pulling teeth for me.

[NBJack]

> Well they certainly have the GPUs for that.

Eh, not really. They are behind in this 'race' on GPU stock as well as spare power, and I question if they will be able to truly catch up before the interest wanes.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/business/amazon-shares-fall-on...

[nyarlathotep_]

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

[Jotalea]

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

[theshrike79]

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

[weberer]

Every single time

[monkmartinez]

I can't tell if this is sarcastic or genuine surprise.

[ozten]

Probably a no go for Spanish speakers.

[riffic]

not really

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nova#Spanish

[ZeroCool2u]

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.

[jdmg94]

Amazon likes to force their devs into full stack roles, like they'll hire you for a frontend role and you'll end up writing java. Some teams do recognize the need for specialization, but generally speaking UI at amazon is an afterthought.

[weberer]

The AWS console supports dark mode. Just click the gear icon in the top bar.