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What you need to know about Amazon Nova Act: the new AI agent SDK challenging OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce


An experimental developer kit for building AI agents that can navigate the web and complete tasks autonomously, powered by Amazon Nova.

Deniz Birlikci, a Member of Technical Staff at Amazon, described the broader vision in a video introducing Nova Act: soon, there will be more AI agents than people browsing the web, carrying out tasks on behalf of users. David Luan, VP of Amazon’s Autonomy Team and Head of AGI SF Lab, framed the mission more directly in a recent video call interview with VentureBeat: “We’ve created this new experimental AI model that is trained to perform actions in a web browser. For example, one of the sample workflows demonstrated in Amazon’s documentation shows how Nova Act can automate apartment searches by scraping rental listings and calculating biking distance to train stations, then sorting the results in a structured table.

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