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Nous Research

Open source AI research organization

nousresearch.com

Headquarters: Austin, United States
Founded year: 2023
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 10–70
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Nous Research

In short: Nous Research advanced its Hermes Agent ecosystem and open-source models while reportedly seeking new funding at a $1.5B valuation.

Company announcements

September 4 Nous Research

Nous Research hires software engineers and designers

Candidates will tackle complex challenges in cloud computing, product development, and user experience design.

May 13 Nous Research

Nous Research introduces Token Superposition Training for efficient LLM pretraining

The method uses bag-of-tokens during initial training to speed up wall-clock time by 2-3× at matched FLOPs.

January 6 Nous Research

Nous Research introduces NousCoder-14B, a competitive programming model

It achieves 67.87% Pass@1 on LiveCodeBench v6, trained with reinforcement learning on 24k problems.

29 September 2025 Nous Research

Nous Research launches parallel training of new models on Psyche

After proving distributed training at scale, they will run ablations and train Hermes 4 on Seed-OSS-36B model.

Media coverage

August 18 Open Source For You

Nous Research Launches Bot Mode For Hermes Agent - Open Source For You

Nous Research's Bot Mode for Hermes Agent transforms isolated agent profiles into a roster of specialized, named AI bots capable of multi-agent collaboration.

July 13 TechCrunch

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

May 16 Yahoo Tech

What Is Hermes? The Self-Improving AI Agent Coming for OpenClaw

Nous Research's open-source AI agent is the first with a built-in learning loop—it creates skills fr...

28 August 2025 VentureBeat

Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions

Nous Research launches Hermes 4 open-source AI models that outperform ChatGPT on math benchmarks with uncensored responses and hybrid reasoning capabilities.

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