Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has released Nova Act, a new artificial intelligence model capable of performing actions within a web browser, such as shopping or making reservations, the company announced today.

The new agent will compete with other AI companies that are already in this space, such as the Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI's Operator, which is designed to automate various web-based tasks for users, including booking tickets, making restaurant reservations, filling out online forms and shopping on e-commerce platforms.

Amazon has released a research preview of Amazon Nova Act SDK, which allows developers to utilize an early version of the new model. The e-commerce and cloud giant is also rolling out nova.amazon.com, a new website allowing users to explore these foundation models. 

"We've created this experience to inspire builders, so that they can quickly test their ideas with Nova models, and then implement them at scale in Amazon Bedrock," said Rohit Prasad, SVP of Amazon Artificial General Intelligence. "It is an exciting step forward for rapid exploration with AI, including bleeding-edge capabilities such as the Nova Act SDK for building agents that take actions on the web."

The Nova foundation models were first introduced in December. Amazon Nova includes three models, Micro, Lite and Pro, that generate text from different modalities, and two additional models for generating images, Nova Canvas, and videos, Nova Reel, from text and image input.