Amazon Debuts Nova Act, a Browser-Based AI Agent for Automating Online Tasks

Released as a research preview, Nova Act is Amazon's first product from its AGI Lab, aimed at advancing AI agents and competing with industry leaders.

Nova Act, Amazon's new AI agent, can autonomously perform tasks in web browsers, such as filling out forms, making reservations, and navigating websites.
The product is available as a research preview, with a developer toolkit (SDK) to help build agent prototypes and explore use cases.
Developed by Amazon's AGI Lab, led by former OpenAI and Google researchers David Luan and Pieter Abbeel, Nova Act is part of Amazon's broader Nova AI initiative.
Amazon claims Nova Act outperforms competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic in internal tests but has not undergone common benchmark evaluations.
The release positions Amazon as a key competitor in the growing AI agent market, leveraging its Nova foundation models for text, image, and video processing.