Technology Magazine January 2025 | Page 132

MATT GARMAN
DATA & ANALYTICS
With a speed of 210 output tokens per second , it is positioned as ideal for applications requiring fast responses .
Meanwhile , Nova Lite has shown competitive performance against other models in its intelligence class , performing equal or better on 17 of 19 benchmarks compared to OpenAI ’ s GPT-4o mini , and on 17 of 21 benchmarks compared to Google ’ s Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B .
It excels in understanding videos , charts and documents , as measured by benchmarks such as VATEX , ChartQA and DocVQA .
Nova Pro also demonstrated strong performance , matching or surpassing OpenAI ’ s GPT-4o on 17 of 20 benchmarks and Google ’ s Gemini 1.5 Pro on 16 of 21 benchmarks .
It particularly excels at instruction-following and multimodal agentic workflows .
Integration and customisation Amazon is positioning its Nova models as highly integrable with existing systems .
The models are designed to work seamlessly with Amazon Bedrock , allowing customers to experiment with different models to find the best fit for their applications .
The company is also offering customisation options , including fine-tuning and distillation .
Fine-tuning allows customers to improve model accuracy using their own data , while

MATT GARMAN

TITLE : CEO COMPANY : AWS INDUSTRY : TECHNOLOGY
Matt Garman is the CEO of Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), overseeing cloud computing strategies . He joined Amazon in 2006 , previously leading AWS Sales and Marketing . He holds an MBA from Northwestern University and degrees from Stanford .

“ I have never been as excited today as I am about the future ”

MATT GARMAN , CEO , AWS
132 January 2025