4th December 2024 Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference. The new model family is called Amazon Nova and comes in three sizes: Micro, Lite and Pro. I built a new LLM plugin called llm-bedrock for accessing the models in the terminal via boto3 and the Amazon Bedrock API. My initial impressions from trying out the models are that they’re mainly competitive with the Google Gemini family. They are extremely inexpensive—Nova Micro slightly undercut...