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Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model

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This article announces the general availability of Amazon Nova 2 Lite, a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday AI workloads available in Amazon Bedrock.

  • Supports extended thinking with step-by-step reasoning and three thinking budget levels
  • Accepts text, image, video, and document inputs with one million-token context window
  • Includes built-in tools: web grounding for citations and code interpreter for execution
  • Excels in instruction following, math, video understanding, and code generation
  • Customizable for specific business needs on Bedrock and SageMaker AI
  • Ideal for customer service, document processing, and business process automation
  • Available globally via cross-Region inference in Amazon Bedrock

Nova 2 Lite provides industry-leading price performance for building efficient agentic-AI applications and can be customized using Nova Forge for domain-specific needs.



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