Monday, May 05, 2025

AI models: Amazon Nova

competition is good... while previous Titan AI models from Amazon are mostly "good enough" 
for simpler tasks, new Nova models seem to be more competitive

 Amazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yet | TechCrunch

Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos (but not audio), is available in Amazon Bedrock, the company’s AI model development platform. Amazon says that Premier excels at “complex tasks” that “require deep understanding of context, multi-step planning, and precise execution across multiple tools and data sources.”

Amazon announced its Nova lineup of models in December at its annual AWS re:Invent conference. Over the last few months, the company has expanded the collection with image- and video-generating models as well as with audio understanding and agentic, task-performing releases.




AI tool: LangChain.js & LangChain (Python)

LangChain @GitHub (MIT license)

Build context-aware, reasoning applications with LangChain’s flexible abstractions and AI-first toolkits.

Core OSS libraries:
LangChain and LangChain.js - reusable components and integrations for building LLM applications
LangGraph and LangGraph.js - build LLM agents as graphs


LangChain is a software framework that helps facilitate the integration of large language models (LLMs) into applications. As a language model integration framework, LangChain's use-cases largely overlap with those of language models in general, including document analysis and summarizationchatbots, and code analysis.


Products:
LangSmith - platform for building and monitoring production-grade LLM applications
LangGraph Platform - infrastructure for deploying LangGraph agents






by Alex Dan