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...

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 besides setting...

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...

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,...

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...

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...