Amazon announced the Nova Act on Monday, a universal AI proxy that can control a web browser and perform some simple operations independently. In addition to the new proxy AI model, Amazon has released the Nova Act SDK, a toolkit that allows developers to build proxy prototypes using Nova ACT.
Nova Act, by Amazon recently opened San Francisco-based Agi Labswill also power the company’s key functions The upcoming Alexa+ upgrade, Generative AI-enhanced version of Amazon’s popular voice assistant. However, the polishing volume of the Nova Act version starting today has been reduced a bit. Amazon calls it a research preview.
Developers can access NOVA ACT toolkit on new websites nova.amazon.comThis is also a display of various Nova Foundation models on Amazon.
Nova Act is Amazon’s attempt Operators at Openai and Human computer usage General AI technology with general AI proxy technology. Several leading tech companies believe that AI agents that can browse the web for users will make today’s AI chatbots more useful.
Amazon may not be the first to develop this proxy technology, but through Alexa+, It may have the maximum range.
Amazon says developers built with NOVA ACT SDK should be able to automate basic operations on behalf of users, such as ordering salads from Sweetgreen or making dinner reservations. With the Nova ACT toolkit, developers can combine tools for AI agents to browse web pages, fill out forms, or select dates on their calendars.
Amazon claims NOVA ACT outperforms Openai’s agents and humans on several internal testing of the company. For example, on the web text on the screen, which measures the interaction of AI agents with text on the screen, Nova Act scored 94%, outperforming OpenAI’s CUA (score of 88%) and human Claude 3.7 sonnet (90%).
However, Amazon does not use more common proxy evaluations, such as WebVoyager, for benchmark NOVA ACT.
Nova Act is the first public product of Amazon’s aforementioned AGI labs. An initiative Co-led by former Openai researchers David Luan and Pieter Abbeel. These two previously founded startups are their own – Luan Starts skilledco-founded by Athens Covariates – Before Amazon hired their AI agent efforts last year.
While it might seem strange for AGI labs to build an AI agent that can order sweets, Luan told TechCrunch that he believes the agent is a key step in creating a super-intelligent AI system. Luan defines AGI as “an AI system that can help you do anything on your computer.”
Luan said his team designed the Nova Act SDK to reliably automate simple, simple tasks and provide developers with precisely defined tools to determine when they want humans to intervene in the proxy workflow. He hopes this will enable developers to create more reliable proxy applications, though not necessarily completely autonomous applications.
Amazon is releasing its first generalist AI agent in a crowded space, but it is an important technology the company is developing. Early tests of NOVA ACT can glimpse some of the capabilities of the extended Alexa+, an Amazon AI effort that is practiced or disrupted.
one The main issues of early AI agents From Openai, Google and Anthropic are their reliability in different fields. In TechCrunch testing, the system is slow, difficult to operate independently for a long time, and is prone to making mistakes. It won’t be long until we see if Amazon cracks the code, or if its agents suffer from flaws that plague competitors.
