Organization
Nous Research
Nous Research is an AI model developer and research lab based in the United States4. This catalog lists 2 open model releases and 1 software project from Nous Research, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0 and the Meta Llama 3 Community License (card license field "llama3").
Documented roles: Model developer · Research lab · Developer platform
Nous Research is an AI research company that trains and releases open-weight language models, most prominently the Hermes series of post-trained models, and builds open-source agent and training software such as Hermes Agent and the Atropos reinforcement-learning environment framework.1289
Using this organization’s offerings
The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.
Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Corporation established under the laws of Delaware, per the Nous Portal terms of service.3
- Headquarters
- United States (city not stated; the store privacy policy gives a contact address in Austin, Texas)4
- Other documented locations
- New York, New York5
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Open models, Agents, Research
What is and isn’t public
Nous Research publishes Hermes model weights on Hugging Face. These are post-trained from other organizations' base models; the model cards declare, for example, Apache 2.0 for the Seed-OSS-based Hermes 4.3 36B and a Llama license ("llama3") for the Llama-based Hermes 4 70B. It also publishes evaluation samples and open-source tools such as Atropos and Hermes Agent. The Hermes 4 technical report describes the post-training data but does not link a release of it. This catalog assesses openness per release.11121398
Products
Hosted model products
Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nous Portal (external site: portal.nousresearch.com) | Hosted model API | Account and credits-based subscription service that provides model inference (including the Nous Inference API), hosted tools, and cloud hosting for Hermes Agent; its catalog includes Nous models and many third-party models.6311 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes Agent (external site: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com) | Developer tool | Open-source (MIT) autonomous agent that runs from a terminal install, desktop apps, or cloud hosting through Nous Portal, connects to messaging platforms, and can use Nous Portal or another model provider.78 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Model families
- HermesModel family
Model releases
- Hermes 4 70BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- Hermes 4.3 36BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Runtimes
- Hermes AgentSoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- Nous Research says Hermes 4.3 36B was its first Hermes model trained over the internet on Psyche, a decentralized training network, and that it also released a centrally trained version for comparison.1011
- For Hermes 4, Nous Research published the evaluation samples generated during benchmarking on Hugging Face alongside the models, as described in the Hermes 4 technical report.13
In the news
Nous Research releases Hermes Agent 0.20.0 with conversational voice and A2A v1.0 support
Nous Research published Hermes Agent v0.20.0 (tagged v2026.8.3) on GitHub on August 3, 2026, calling it "The Herald Release." The release notes list streaming conversational voice with barge-in and on-device wake words, and a new bundled plugin that implements the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol v1.0 so Hermes can discover, talk to, and be driven by other A2A-compatible agents. The notes also list signed outbound webhooks, grounded research with citations and fact-checking, and a plugin SDK for the desktop app. USASI has not tested this release.
What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Headquarters state: the documented headquarters does not name a state.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
The Nous Portal terms of service identify the operator as Nous Research, Inc., a Delaware corporation. The only postal address found in Nous Research's own documents is 600 Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas, listed as a contact address for Nous Research, Inc. in its store privacy policy; the careers page refers to a New York office and lists other roles as remote. No official page reviewed names a headquarters city, so only the country is recorded; no non-U.S. office was found, and the U.S. headquarters basis rests on these documents.345
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USASI. (2026, September 29). Nous Research. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/nous-research/
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