Amazon Nova Canvas
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
- 3 December 2024
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Image generation, Vision
- Task
- Image generation, Text-to-image
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.
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
Background
Amazon Nova Canvas was published by Amazon, in United States of America, in December 2024. industry is the category the publisher falls under.
It works in Image generation, Vision, and is recorded as doing image generation, Text-to-image.
This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.
Answers
Amazon Nova Canvas — common questions
What is Amazon Nova Canvas used for?
Amazon Nova Canvas works in Image generation, Vision, and is recorded as handling image generation, Text-to-image. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.
What GPU do I need to run Amazon Nova Canvas?
None. Amazon Nova Canvas 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.
Is Amazon Nova Canvas open source?
No. Amazon Nova Canvas has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
How many parameters does Amazon Nova Canvas have?
No parameter count has been published for Amazon Nova Canvas, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.
Who created Amazon Nova Canvas?
Amazon Nova Canvas was published by Amazon, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.
When was Amazon Nova Canvas released?
Amazon Nova Canvas was published in December 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
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Looking at it from the other side?
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