Nous Research
AI research company behind the open-source Hermes models
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Newest first. Open one to see it with its source.
The first controlled comparison showing distributed training is not just possible but equal or better
A US community team fine-tuning on top of a Chinese base model — a symbolic scene of shifting leadership
Distributed training moves beyond pretraining demos into the post-training path of real product models
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
Unlike the usual practice of opening only the weights, it released the post-training data too. A baseline for reproducibility in the open community
The largest pretraining run over the internet. Solved collaboration among untrusted participants with blockchain coordination
Claims at the level of a preliminary report turned into a reproducible paper and code
The starting point of the approach of training over internet bandwidth, without data center interconnects
The first case of the community actually fine-tuning the 405B model
The de facto standard recipe for context extension, unifying Position Interpolation and NTK-aware interpolation