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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW AMAZON NOVA LLMS (VIA A NEW LLM-BEDROCK PLUGIN)

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Amazon's new large language models are mainly competitive with the Google Gemini family. They are extremely inexpensive and can handle quite large contexts. The two larger models can handle images, video, and PDFs. This article takes a look at the Amazon Nova family of models, specifically its pricing and capabilities, how to access the models from the terminal, and how to use multi-modal prompting with images and documents.