Team
NOUS RESEARCHWho
Nous Research is a pioneer in open AI training and research. They created Hermes Agent, the most widely used open source agent harness in the world.
Mission
To create and proliferate open access to intelligence. Powerful AI should be in the hands of the many rather than the privileged few.
Work
They train models, build agents, and develop infrastructure to accelerate adoption of open intelligence globally.
Research focus
Agents, model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning.
The agent
The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research: the only agent with a built-in learning loop — creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
SOURCE: NOUSRESEARCH.COM (FETCHED LIVE OCT 14 2026)
Names in the public record
SOURCED, NOT ASSUMEDTeknium
Nous Research — Announced Hermes-Bot-Mode; maintains the Nous Discord archive used as a source in this hub. · github.com/teknium1
Sam Herring
Nous Research — Presented "Nous Research's Hermes Agent: The Case for Open Models in Production" at Arize Observe 2026. · YouTube (Arize Observe 2026)
Jeffrey Quesnelle
Nous Research — Interviewed on Practical AI Episode #357 on Hermes Agent and Nous internal deployments. · Practical AI #357
Karan Malhotra
Nous Research — Live Hermes session with Peter Yang (game modding demo). · YouTube (Peter Yang)
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