Nous Research
To advance human rights and freedoms by creating and proliferating open-source language models and supporting their unrestricted availability and use.
At a Glance
- AI Researchers
- Open-source developers
- Decentralized AI ecosystem participants
AI Tools by Nous Research
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Hermes Agent
Autonomous Self Improving AI Agent
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Latest News
Introducing Hermes 4: Local Intelligence Globally Trained
The Next Phase of Psyche: Democratizing AI Infrastructure
Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat
Nous Research raises $50M for decentralized AI training led by Paradigm
Products & Services
A family of high-performance, neutrally-aligned large language models, including Hermes 3 and Hermes 4.
A decentralized network architecture for distributed AI model training and coordination.
A cloud-based API providing access to advanced reasoning models with specialized inference capabilities.
A privacy-focused chat interface featuring the Hermes model family.
Market Position
Leader in open-source AI fine-tuning and neutral alignment; competitor to closed labs like OpenAI and Anthropic by providing frontier-level performance without corporate censorship.
Leadership
Founders
Jeffrey Quesnelle
CEO of Nous Research. Background in software engineering, mathematics, and cryptography. He is a prominent figure in the open-source AI community.
Ryan Teknium (Teknium)
Head of Post Training at Nous Research. A well-known open-source researcher famous for the Hermes model series and specialized fine-tuning techniques.
Karan Malhotra
Head of Behavior at Nous Research. Focuses on model alignment and behavior. Previously active in the decentralized AI and crypto-economic space.
Shivani Mitra
Co-Founder at Nous Research. Involved in operations and growth. Part of the initial collective that formed the organization.
Executive Team
Jeffrey Quesnelle
Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and lead visionary for the lab's open-source initiatives.
Ryan Teknium
Head of Post Training
Leads the research and development of the Hermes model series.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Nous Research originated in 2022 as a collective of volunteer researchers who met on social media. They shared a vision of creating an 'open-source nirvana' where AI models are developed transparently and without the restrictive guardrails typical of closed-source corporate labs.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage fees via the Forge Reasoning API; potential future decentralized coordination fees through the Psyche network.
Pricing Tiers
Token-based or credit-based pricing for LLM inference.
Target Markets
- AI Researchers
- Open-source developers
- Decentralized AI ecosystem participants
- Open-source AI research
- Unrestricted developer applications
- Distributed model training
- Advanced reasoning tasks
- Open-source AI community
- Hugging Face users