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Nova 2 Lite now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Amazon's Nova 2 Lite is now live on Vercel AI Gateway. No vendor lock-in required.

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Why it matters

Vercel expands its unified AI Gateway to include Amazon's latest reasoning model, lowering friction for developers to integrate multimodal capabilities without managing multiple provider accounts. This signals growing competition in the API abstraction layer.

The key facts

6 to know
  1. Nova 2 Lite now accessible via Vercel AI Gateway

  2. Supports text, image, and video processing

  3. Reasoning capability available with configurable maxReasoningEffort

  4. Unified API consolidates usage tracking, cost monitoring, and provider routing

  5. No separate provider account required for access

  6. Built-in observability and bring-your-own-key support included

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Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: You can now access Amazon's latest model Nova 2 Lite via Vercel's with no other provider accounts required. Nova 2 Lite is a reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text.AI Gateway To use Nova 2 Lite, set to in the . Extending thinking is…
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