Amazon reportedly scales back its Nova AI models and bets on a new Frontier research team

Amazon is reportedly scaling back development on several in-house Nova models, including Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas.

The company will keep those models available to existing customers while shifting more resources to Frontier Model Research.

That research effort is being led by Pieter Abbeel, following AGI layoffs and the shutdown of Amazon’s AGI Lab.

Amazon is expected to unveil a new foundation model at re:Invent as it refocuses its AI strategy.