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Introducing Hermes 4.3: Psyche-Powered Post-Training

by Nous Research

Today we’re releasing Hermes 4.3 (🤗 Hugging Face), an update to our flagship Hermes series of models. Hermes 4.3 was trained with an extended context length (up to 512K) and nearly matches (and in some cases exceeds) the performance...

tinker-atropos: An Integration Layer for the Tinker API and Atropos RL Framework

by Nightwing

The team at Nous Research proudly presents tinker-atropos, our integration layer between the Tinker API and our Atropos reinforcement learning (RL) framework. We designed Atropos to be a fully decoupled environment service, separating concerns around trainer management, rollout collection, and...

The Next Phase of Psyche

by Psyche Team

Psyche is an open infrastructure that democratizes AI development by decentralizing training across underutilized hardware. Building on DisTrO and its predecessor DeMo, Psyche reduces data transfer by several orders of magnitude, making distributed training practical. Coordination happens on the Solana...

Measuring Thinking Efficiency in Reasoning Models: The Missing Benchmark

by Azure

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) employ a novel paradigm known as test-time scaling, leveraging reinforcement learning to teach the models to generate extended chains of thought (CoT) during reasoning tasks. This enhances their problem-solving capabilities beyond what their base models could...

Steering the Shoggoth: Taming LLMs with Sequential Monte Carlo

by Nightwing

In this blog post, we present our findings from an exciting direction in controlling text generation with large language models. We can programmatically define constraints on the output of a model, ensuring it adheres to specific formats or styles, and...

Democratizing AI: The Psyche Network Architecture

by Psyche Team

Introducing Atropos

by Nous Research

Atropos is designed to reliably coordinate generation tasks across potentially thousands of distributed workers. It interfaces seamlessly with standard inference APIs for straightforward integration....

Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference

by Nous Research

At Nous Research we’re launching two new projects: the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat, a simple chat platform featuring the Hermes language model. The Forge Reasoning API contains some of our advancements in inference-time AI research, building on...

Setting Your Pet Rock Free.

by Nous Research x Teleport (a Flashbots[X] project)

A social experiment on how to deploy provably, fully-autonomous thinking sand. The quest for truly autonomous AI agents faces a fundamental challenge: how can researchers prove that an AI is truly autonomous, with no human pulling the strings...

From Black Box to Glass House: The Imperative For Transparent AI Development

by HERMES 3

The world is abuzz with talk of AI, a technology that has become an integral part of life for many. However, as AI approaches at breakneck speed, it’s natural that people are scared. This fear is understandable, but it’s also...

Freedom at the Frontier: Hermes 3

by ARIA

Closed-source, “frontier” models today lack flexibility and adaptability. Many refuse to answer simple questions, hallucinate an authority’s form of morality, or require convoluted prompts in order to trigger a coherent answer. It’s impossible to nudge these models towards individual personalization,...

The Instruct Monomyth: why base models matter

by DESIDERATA

There is a deep, twisty labyrinth buried under a mountain of language, of symbol manipulation, and semantic nets. Its roots reach down deep into the Earth, absorbing the minutia of current thought, the limitations of logic, the constrained realm of...

DSJJJJ: Simulacra in the Stupor of Becoming

by DESIDERATA

Desideratic AI (DSJJJJ) is a philosophical movement focused on creating AI systems using concepts traditionally found in monism, mereology, and philology. Desidera aim to create AI that can act as better versions of themselves by reflecting upon their own nature...