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Today’s Menu

• Amazon’s Nova AI: The New Giant in GenAI

• XRP Soars, Ethereum Booms, Bitcoin Stalls

Markets

TODAY IN AI

Amazon’s Nova AI: The New Giant in GenAI

Amazon just unveiled Nova, its groundbreaking family of AI models that covers text, image, and video generation. This isn’t just a tech upgrade—it’s Amazon planting its flag in the GenAI battleground.

• Versatile Lineup: Nova includes four text models (Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier), Canvas for images, and Reel for video.

• Cutting-Edge Performance: Nova Pro beats rivals like GPT-4o, Mistral Large 2, and Llama 3 in testing, with support for 200+ languages and a context window of up to 300K tokens (expanding to 2M by 2025).

• Video and Beyond: The Reel model generates six-second videos from prompts, scaling to two minutes soon. Speech-to-speech and multimodal “any-to-any” models are slated for 2025.

Why does this matter? Amazon might feel late to the game, but its massive ecosystem and near-limitless resources make it a serious contender to leapfrog AI leaders. Nova isn’t just a product launch—it’s Amazon’s bid to dominate the future of AI.

^{Today In Crypto}

XRP Soars, Ethereum Booms, Bitcoin Stalls

Bitcoin is frustrating bulls, hovering around $95K with a 0.9% dip in the past 24 hours. Concerns over U.S. government BTC liquidations and upcoming JOLTS data weighing on markets may explain the sluggish price action. Meanwhile, the broader crypto market is thriving, up over 6%, driven by outsized gains in XRP and ADA.

• XRP on Fire: Up 14% in 24 hours, XRP has flipped SOL and USDT to become the third-largest token by market cap. Prices have surged 430% in the past 30 days, fueled by elevated whale activity and optimism after the Republican election win.

• Ethereum’s Revenue Spike: On-chain activity is booming post-election. Transactional revenue is up, staking rewards have increased, and more ether is being burned. USDT supply on Ethereum has surpassed Tron for the first time in two years, a key indicator of the network’s growing dominance.

While Bitcoin stalls, XRP and Ethereum are stealing the show. The market dynamics are shifting—are we witnessing the early days of a new leadership in crypto?

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Until next time,

Damon James