Nous Research releases Hermes 4
Hermes 4 released — corpus expanded to about 5 million samples (60B tokens), centered on validated reasoning traces; <think> hybrid reasoning; 14B/70B/405B weights fully released
Why it matters
An approach that benchmarks lower refusal rates as an alignment metric in their own right. The open community formalizes an alternative axis to safety alignment
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18255Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week