# Amazon scales back most Nova AI models to focus on a frontier model effort

> Original title: Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure

- Source: Hacker News · AI (150+ points)
- Published: 2026-10-27T16:25:30.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/z9juoko8wilv83wit5digln03
- Original: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-division-failure-nova

## Summary

Amazon is reportedly scaling back most of its Nova AI models, including text, video, and image models, placing them in a keep-the-lights-on state. Labor and computing power are being shifted to a single frontier-model effort led by Pieter Abbeel, while the company closed an 80-person San Francisco AGI research office a week earlier.