Getting started with Amazon Nova 2 Omni (Preview) & Amazon Nova AI hackathon

What's hot off the press from AWS re:Invent 2025? I am still excited to experiment with AI foundation models announced at last year's AWS re:Invent. If you missed watching the keynote from CEO of Amazon Web Services Matt Garman you may keep abreast of the key announcements if you are practitioner or researcher working at the intersection of data and AI. Let me introduce you to Amazon Nova 2 family of foundation models which are foundation models that include different capabilities to help you achieve your tasks. You may refer to the technical report published in December 2025 by Amazon Artificial Generative Intelligence team to compared benchmark performance. Amazon Nova 2 Lite: a cost-effective multimodal reasoning model that is fast and output text and code. Amazon Nova 2 Pro: a multimodal model that can be configured for extended thinking with multimodal reasoning capabilities. Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: a speech-to-speech model that can be used for conversational AI such as building chat