re:Invent 2025 keynote
Swami Sivasubramanian · Dec 3, 2025 · 1h 41m · Las Vegas
Summary
Swami Sivasubramanian's AI-focused re:Invent 2025 keynote framed agentic AI as the new computing model, launching the Nova 2 model family and expanding Bedrock AgentCore.
Key themes: Agents, Models, Open models · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Swami opened by declaring agentic AI as a fundamentally new way of using AI.1:03
- 2Amazon Bedrock AgentCore was built to solve orchestration and reliability challenges for agents.15:22
- 3Amazon SageMaker AI was framed as the answer to the operational overhead of managing agent infrastructure.40:59
- 4Amazon Bedrock now offers Mistral 7B and other open-weight models including Qwen and Kimi.41:43
- 5Amazon Nova Forge, which Garman launched the day before, lets customers build custom frontier models.47:30
- 6Amazon Nova Act reached general availability for building reliable browser automation agents.1:15:55
- 7Blue Origin's VP of Tech Transformation joined to discuss building agentic systems for space operations.26:18
Announced
4 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Amazon Nova 2 SonicSpeech-to-speech model for conversational AI | GA |
| Amazon Nova 2 LiteFast, cost-effective reasoning model with extended thinking | GA |
| Amazon Nova 2 OmniMultimodal model for text, image, video and speech | Preview |
| Amazon Nova ForgeProgram to build custom frontier models on Nova | Announced |
| Amazon Nova ActService for building UI workflow automation agents | GA |
| Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAdded quality evaluations and policy controls for agents | Announced |
| Amazon Bedrock open-weight modelsAdds 18 models including Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 | GA |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prVdCIHlipg
On stage
- Swami SivasubramanianVice President of Agentic AI, AWS
Sources
Companies named: Alibaba, Amazon, AWS, Blue Origin, Google, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, Moonshot AI, Nvidia, OpenAI
Last changed 2026-09-24.
History (append-only)
- 2026-09-24 · address changed by seed
- 2026-09-24 · announcements changed by seed
- 2026-09-24 · takeaways changed by seed
- 2026-09-24 · themes changed by seed
- 2026-09-24 · basis changed by seed
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