Overview
- Amazon has begun deprecating most of its flagship Nova models, including Premier, Omni, Reel and Canvas, as it reallocates talent and compute to a single frontier effort, according to reports on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
- The prioritized program is called Frontier Model Research (FMR) and is led by Pieter Abbeel; Amazon expects to surface a new next‑generation flagship foundation model at this year’s re:Invent, though that debut remains unconfirmed by the company.
- The change follows recent cuts in the company's AGI organization and the shutdown of AGI Lab, and it consolidates AGI work under senior cloud executive Peter DeSantis.
- Amazon says it will keep supporting production models customers rely on and will offer migration guidance, while retaining parts of the Nova lineup such as Nova 2 Sonic, Nova 2 Lite, Nova Forge and Nova Act.
- The move narrows Amazon's parallel model research and could speed a single high‑profile product, but it also concentrates hiring and compute pressure and may shift AWS's focus toward supplying infrastructure and fewer in‑house models.