31-03-2025
Amazon's Secret Weapon? This AI Agent Just Crushed OpenAI in Key Benchmarks
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) just dropped its biggest AI swing yetand it's aiming straight at the future. The company launched Nova Act, a browser-controlling AI agent that can handle real-world tasks like shopping online, filling out forms, and even booking reservationsno human needed. Built by Amazon's AGI lab, led by ex-OpenAI and Covariant talent, Nova Act is now live in research preview for developers, along with a toolkit (SDK) to start building custom agents. What's grabbing attention isn't just the launchit's the numbers: Nova Act scored 94% on the ScreenSpot Web Text benchmark, a widely used test of how agents interact with on-screen text. That result outperforms OpenAI's CUA (88%) and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet (90%).
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The bigger story? This isn't just another AI demo. Nova Act is already being baked into Alexa+the AI-infused upgrade to Amazon's voice assistantand it's backed by a growing suite of Nova models. Instead of chasing most powerful model headlines, Amazon is betting on speed, affordability (up to 75% cheaper than rivals), and real-world utility. Through developers can now test ideas and scale them via AWS's Bedrock platform. Amazon isn't just building flashy toolsit's creating pipelines to plug AI directly into consumer behavior and enterprise workflows.
For investors, this launch is more than a product releaseit's a strategic move with massive upside potential. If Amazon nails the transition from chatbot to reliable digital agent, it could unlock new revenue streams across voice, e-commerce, and cloud services. In a market crowded with AI hype, Nova Act could become Amazon's stealth acea high-utility, high-scale solution that positions it to lead the next evolution of AI adoption.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
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