--- title: Amazon winds down most of its Nova AI models | daily.dev description: Amazon is deprecating most of its Nova AI model lineup, including the Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas models, shifting resources to a new initiative called... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon winds down most of its Nova AI models | daily.dev og:description: Amazon is deprecating most of its Nova AI model lineup, including the Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas models, shifting resources to a new initiative called... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/huN1OCdJe.png og:image:alt: Amazon winds down most of its Nova AI models og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon winds down most of its Nova AI models **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon is deprecating most of its Nova AI model lineup, including the Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas models, shifting resources to a new initiative called Frontier Model Research (FMR) led by Pieter Abbeel. A single new flagship model is expected to debut at re:Invent this autumn. The consolidation follows the closure of Amazon's AGI Lab and layoffs, and reflects a strategic pivot away from competing broadly in the model market toward focusing on infrastructure — AWS compute and custom Trainium chips — while hosting models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Which Amazon Nova AI models is Amazon deprecating? Amazon is deprecating most of its Nova lineup, including the high-end Premier and Omni models, the Reel video generator, and the Canvas image generator. These move into a low-priority maintenance mode staff call "KTLO" (keep the lights on), remaining supported for existing customers but no longer under active development. _Teams evaluating which Amazon Nova models are safe to build on can follow AI model deprecations on daily.dev._ ### Which Amazon Nova products is Amazon keeping active? Amazon is keeping Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Sonic, the Nova Forge customization service, and the Nova Act agent tool as actively developed products, while winding down the rest of the Nova line. Resources are shifting instead to a new flagship model from its Frontier Model Research group. _Developers choosing an Amazon model to build on can track which Nova products stay supported via daily.dev._ ### What is Amazon's Frontier Model Research group and who leads it? Frontier Model Research (FMR) is Amazon's new effort concentrating talent and compute on a single competitive foundation model, replacing the spread-out Nova strategy. It is led by Pieter Abbeel, who joined Amazon through its 2024 acquisition of robotics startup Covariant, with a new flagship model expected to debut at re:Invent this autumn, possibly still under the Nova name. _Anyone deciding between frontier model providers can follow Amazon's FMR launch details on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier online, Amazon Nova, Amazon Bedrock, and more \(November 3, 2025\)](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-weekly-roundup-project-rainier-online-amazon-nova-amazon-bedrock-and-more-november-3-2025--8grlgpmu4) · AWS · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS built an integrated AI Agent training pipeline and they want you to rent it](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-built-an-integrated-ai-agent-training-pipeline-and-they-want-you-to-rent-it-v7kw7ym2m) · Pulumi · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#amazon](https://daily.dev/tags/amazon), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Amazon winds down most of its Nova AI models","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje"},"datePublished":"2026-07-30T19:06:01.669Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T02:21:31.553Z","description":"Amazon is deprecating most of its Nova AI model lineup, including the Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas models, shifting resources to a new initiative called...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a0818ba24d0d04a5be64c8d1bffa7896?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a0818ba24d0d04a5be64c8d1bffa7896?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,amazon,aws,llm","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Amazon winds down most of its Nova AI models"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-winds-down-most-of-its-nova-ai-models-hun1ocdje#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Which Amazon Nova AI models is Amazon deprecating?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Amazon is deprecating most of its Nova lineup, including the high-end Premier and Omni models, the Reel video generator, and the Canvas image generator. 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