- Introduces Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, a speech‑to‑speech model with improved reasoning, instruction following, and tool‑calling accuracy for real‑time voice agents.
- Delivers lower latency, a 256K context window, multi‑step instruction handling, async tool calling, and support for voice + text in seven languages.
- Generally available in multiple AWS regions, integrates with Strands Bidi Agents for rapid production deployment, and is priced the same as Nova 2 Sonic.