Skip to content
AWS re:Invent 2025

re:Invent 2025 keynoteSwami Sivasubramanian, Dec 3, 2025

Wednesday, December 3, 20251h 41mChecked 2026-09-24
Watch on YouTubeOfficial recap

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.

Where each takeaway is said1:41:25
  1. 1Swami opened by declaring agentic AI as a fundamentally new way of using AI.1:03
  2. 2Amazon Bedrock AgentCore was built to solve orchestration and reliability challenges for agents.15:22
  3. 3Amazon SageMaker AI was framed as the answer to the operational overhead of managing agent infrastructure.40:59
  4. 4Amazon Bedrock now offers Mistral 7B and other open-weight models including Qwen and Kimi.41:43
  5. 5Amazon Nova Forge, which Garman launched the day before, lets customers build custom frontier models.47:30
  6. 6Amazon Nova Act reached general availability for building reliable browser automation agents.1:15:55
  7. 7Blue Origin's VP of Tech Transformation joined to discuss building agentic systems for space operations.26:18

Announced

4 available the same day
  • Amazon Nova 2 SonicSpeech-to-speech model for conversational AIGA
  • Amazon Nova 2 LiteFast, cost-effective reasoning model with extended thinkingGA
  • Amazon Nova 2 OmniMultimodal model for text, image, video and speechPreview
  • Amazon Nova ForgeProgram to build custom frontier models on NovaAnnounced
  • Amazon Nova ActService for building UI workflow automation agentsGA
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAdded quality evaluations and policy controls for agentsAnnounced
  • Amazon Bedrock open-weight modelsAdds 18 models including Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3GA

Companies named

Related keynotes

Summaries of official keynote videos and recaps; watch the source for exact wording. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

After each keynote: the takeaways and what launched, in one short email.