AI startup Nous Research releases unrestricted chatbot that outperforms major competitors

Nous Research has quietly launched Hermes 4, a family of AI language models that the company claims matches leading commercial systems while removing most content restrictions. Michael Nuñez reports about the release for VentureBeat. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, Hermes 4 responds to nearly any request without safety guardrails that have become standard in commercial AI …

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Nous Research launches AI model with optional reasoning mode

Nous Research has released DeepHermes-3, a new AI language model that allows users to switch between detailed reasoning and quick responses. As reported by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat, this 8-billion parameter model builds on Meta’s Llama technology. Users can activate a special reasoning mode that makes the AI show its thought process before providing answers. …

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Nous Research trains AI model using distributed internet computers

Nous Research has launched a groundbreaking project to train a 15-billion parameter large language model using computers distributed across the internet instead of traditional data centers. As reported by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat, the company is livestreaming the pre-training process on their website, showing real-time evaluation benchmarks and hardware locations throughout the U.S. and Europe. …

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Nous Research launches Nous Chat, its first user-facing AI chatbot

Nous Research, an AI research group, has launched Nous Chat, a user-facing chatbot that provides access to its large language model, Hermes 3-70B. According to an article by Carl Franzen, the chatbot offers a familiar interface similar to ChatGPT and allows users to interact with the model without needing to run the code themselves. While …

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