Tech Desk 
Apr 01, 2025
In the wake of tech giants making significant investments in the development and betterment of artificial intelligence (AI), Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent capable of taking on a web browser to independently perform simple, internet-oriented tasks.
Nova Act's launch was observed on the sidelines of the Nova Act SDK, a toolkit which enables developers to build AI-powered agent prototypes using the agentic AI model.
Amazon developed its latest AI model at its recently established AGI lab in San Francisco.
TechCrunch reported that the Nova Act is designed to play a crucial role in bringing Alexa+ features to the table. For those uninitiated, Alexa+ is an impending AI upgrade of Amazon’s widely used voice assistant.
It's worth mentioning that Amazon considers the agentic AI model as a research preview since it's in the early stages of full-fledged, stable development.
Developers willing to build upon the Nova Act research preview can access the Nova Act SDK from nova.amazon.com, a dedicated website that also contains the assortment of other Nova foundation models.
Nova Act comes as the latest entrant in the string of AI agents that are capable of autonomously performing web browsing for users, imitating OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use.
