Nova Lite 1.0

A text-only language model from Amazon's Nova family with a 300K-token context window, released in December 2024.

Strengths

Handles long-context tasks efficiently with its 300K-token window while maintaining reasonable inference speed for a general-purpose model.

Best for

Applications requiring moderate context length and general language understanding where multimodal capabilities are not needed.

Limitations

Text-only with no image or video processing; superseded by Nova 2 Lite in the lineup, which adds multimodal support and extends the context window to 1 million tokens.