Nous Research
Human-centric AI research and model development
New York, NY, USA
Founded 2023
Nous Research is the creator of the Hermes agent. It develops human-centric simulators and models through its cutting edge research in natural language processing. Its primary focus areas include large language model architecture, data synthesis, and output steering, all aimed at aligning AI systems with real-world user experiences.
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Last Updated: May 5, 2026
Current Valuation
No valuation data available
Funding Summary
$70M
Total reported funding
Media Mention
May 24, 2026
Artificial Intelligence in Plain English: Build an Autonomous Clipping Agent with Hermes, Vugola, and Postiz | Artificial Intelligence in Plain English
OSS News & Views
May 22, 2026
DeepLearning.AI: OpenClaw Created A Class of Personal Agents; Upstart Hermes Agent Is Outworking It
Media Mention
May 19, 2026
XDA Developers: OpenClaw promised a self-hosted AI assistant I could actually leave running, but Hermes Agent is the one that delivers it
OSS News & Views
May 16, 2026
MarkTechPost: Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context
OSS News & Views
May 16, 2026
Startup Fortune: Nous Research's new training method could change the economics of LLMs – Startup Fortune
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LLMsIndustries
Research & Academia
Technologies
NLPNatural Language Processing
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Enterprise
Licenses
MITApache-2.0GPL-3.0
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