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

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.