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While it's looking like Amazon reportedly wants to get in on the AI reasoning model game,

according to Business Insider, Amazon is developing an AI model that incorporates advanced

reasoning capabilities similar to models like OpenAI's O3 Mini and Chinese AI lab,

Deepseeks R1. The model may launch as soon as June under Amazon's

Nova brand, which the company introduced at its reinvent developer conference last year.

Now, reasoning models take a step-by-step more considered approach to answering queries,

so this tends to boost their reliability in domains like math and science.

The report says Amazon aims to adopt a hybrid reasoning architecture for its new model

along the lines of Anthropics recently released Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Should that come to pass,

the model could provide quick answers and more complex, extended thinking within a single system.

Amazon also hopes to make its Nova reasoning model more price-efficient than competitors,

business insider claims.

That might be a tall order.

DeepSeek has developed a reputation for pricing its models incredibly cheaply.

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