Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models
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Amazon deprecating most Nova models and reallocating to Pieter Abbeel’s Frontier Model Research is a pivot toward fewer, deeper bets at the foundation layer. If you’re building on their stack, expect churn in model menus but more focus on a small set of frontier offerings—plan for abstraction layers so you can swap models without rewriting products.
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