Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at the company’s re:Invent conference on Tuesday to show off six new text, image, and video generation models that it calls Amazon Nova.
This new family of multimodal generative AIs includes Nova Micro, a text-only model built for low-cost, low-latency responses; Nova Lite, a low-cost multimodal model for processing image, video, and text inputs; and Nova Pro, its general purpose multimodal model that combines “accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks,” per the company’s announcement post. Nova Premier is Amazon’s “most capable … multimodal models for complex reasoning tasks,” while Nova Canvas is a dedicated text-to-image engine and Nova Reel is purpose-built to generate video.
The text-based models have been optimized on 15 different languages. Micro offers a 128,000-token context window while both Lite and Pro can handle up to 300,000 tokens (around 225,000 words or 30 minutes of video). The company plans to expand the context windows of its larger models up to 2 million tokens by early next year.
Canvas enables users to generate and edit images using natural language prompts. Reels, which will compete with the likes of Gen-3 Alpha, Kling, and Dall-E 3, can generate clips up to six seconds in length from both text prompts and reference images. The video generator also offers camera motion control including pans and zooms.
“We’ve continued to work on our own frontier models,” Jassy told the assembled crowd, “and those frontier models have made a tremendous amount of progress over the last four to five months. And we figured, if we were finding value out of them, you would probably find value out of them.”
Jassy also says that these models are both among the least expensive to operate and fastest in their class, though the company has yet to post benchmark data supporting those claims. “We’ve optimized these models to work with proprietary systems and APIs, so that you can do multiple orchestrated automatic steps — agent behavior — much more easily with these models,” he said. “So I think these are very compelling.”
The Micro, Lite, and Pro models (as well as Canvas and Reels) are all currently available to AWS customers. Premiere is set to arrive in Q1 2025.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
ASUS has started selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in Europe, bringing its take on Intel’s workstation GPU to customers with a hefty €1,799 recommended price. The card is available in Germany and Austria, while ASUS lists it at CHF 1,799 in Switzerland.
Intel first introduced the Arc Pro B70 in March 2026, with its own branded model starting at $949. ASUS’s version arrives several months later with the same core GPU architecture but a different cooling design and a higher power rating. The price also places it well above Intel’s original starting point, although the two prices are not directly comparable because ASUS’s European figure includes VAT.
Anthropic has officially filed to go public, and buried inside its S-1 is a blunt warning about the technology at the center of its business. The maker of Claude AI says advanced AI could cause everything from large-scale cyberattacks and geopolitical instability to catastrophic or even existential risks for humanity.
The warnings take up a surprisingly large part of the filing. Axios notes that more than 90 pages, or roughly a third of the prospectus, focus on risk factors. Many of them warn about what could happen as AI systems become more capable and autonomous.