Amazon Nova Reel

Closed weights Amazon April 2025

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Amazon
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
7 April 2025

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Video, Vision
Task
Video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware
Amazon Trainium1,NVIDIA A100,NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Amazon Nova Reel is a video generation model that supports the generation of short videos from input text and images. Amazon Nova Reel provides camera motion controls using natural language inputs.
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Amazon Nova Reel was published by Amazon, in the country recorded as United States of America, during April 2025. The category the publisher falls under is industry.

It works in the domain of Video, Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

Amazon Nova Reel — common questions

01

Amazon Nova Reel— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

Amazon Nova Reel— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

03

Amazon Nova Reel— who created it?

It was published by Amazon, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

04

Amazon Nova Reel— when was it released?

It was published in April 2025.

05

Amazon Nova Reel— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Video, Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

06

Amazon Nova Reel— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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