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What you need to know about Amazon Nova Act: the new AI agent SDK challenging OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce
- Amazon has debuted Amazon Nova Act, an AI agent SDK to build web-navigating AI agents, powered by a custom version of the Nova large language model.
- Nova Act aims to enable reliable task completion within web browsers, competing with platforms like Microsoft's AutoGen and Salesforce's Agentforce.
- Unlike traditional AI agents, Nova Act offers atomic, prescriptive commands for chaining into reliable workflows, emphasizing reliability over intelligence.
- Developers can construct automation agents using natural language prompts for web-based tasks with Nova Act.
- The SDK allows for incremental execution of tasks, showcasing reliability in completing browser-based multi-step functions, scoring over 90% in internal evaluations.
- Amazon benchmarked Nova Act against competitors, showing high performance on screen-based and visual UI tasks.
- Nova Act's goal is to be a universal web-browsing solution, demonstrated by its ability to generalize to different environments.
- While not allowing for external model integration, Nova Act is flexible to run on various platforms beyond AWS environments.
- The SDK is open source under Apache License, but the model itself remains closed-source to ensure reliability.
- Amazon offers Nova Act as a free research preview for experimentation, with plans for production-grade terms in the future.
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