This is a digression, but I really wish Amazon would be more normal in their product descriptions. Amazon is rapidly developing its own jargon such that you need to understand how Amazon talks about things (and its existing product lineup) before you can understand half of what they're saying about a new thing. The way they describe their products seems almost designed to obfuscate what they really do. Every time the…
That may be generally true, but the linked page says Nova is a series of foundation models in the first sentence.
Yeah but even then they won't describe it using the same sort of language that everyone else developing these things does. How many parameters? What kind of corpus was it trained on? MoE, single model, or something else? Will the weights be available?
It doesn't even use the words "LLM", "multimodal" or "transformer" which are clearly the most relevant terms here... "foundation model" isn't wrong but it's also the most abstract way to describe it.