Nova 2.0 Lite (medium)

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a multimodal foundation model released as part of the Nova 2 family. It is designed to balance speed and intelligence for enterprise-scale applications, including agentic workflows, document processing, and multimedia analysis. The model supports input in text, image, document, and video formats, providing a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

The model features a configurable extended thinking engine that enables deliberate reasoning and task decomposition. This capability is adjustable through three distinct "thinking budget" levels: low, medium, and high. The medium configuration provides a balance between deep internal deliberation and response speed, allowing the model to process complex mathematical proofs, perform multi-step planning, and verify intermediate reasoning steps.

Nova 2 Lite is equipped with built-in tools for web grounding and a code interpreter. Web grounding allows the model to incorporate real-time, cited information from the internet into its responses, while the code interpreter permits the execution of Python code to perform precise calculations or data transformations. It is architected for high reliability in agentic behaviors, such as function calling and UI automation tasks.