Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: 2026 year-to-date in review
SageMaker JumpStart added 100+ models from 30 providers in first 9 months of 2026
“This represents a significant expansion of the catalog, driven by the accelerating pace of open source model releases and growing customer demand for choice across model architectures, sizes, and capabilities.”
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart catalogued over 100 new models from 30 providers in 2026, led by Alibaba Qwen (29 models), NVIDIA (17), Mistral (7), and Google Gemma 4 (6). The expansion reflects AWS betting on model choice and one-click deployment as a competitive moat against Bedrock and other managed inference platforms. While operationally significant for AWS customers, this is a catalog update rather than a novel technical or strategic breakthrough.