# Nous Research

> Nous Research is an AI research company building open language models and
> agentic systems. Its products include Hermes Agent, a terminal-native
> autonomous agent with persistent memory and a messaging gateway; the Hermes
> family of open models; Nous Portal, the API and billing platform for Nous
> inference; Psyche, a distributed training network; and the Forge reasoning
> API.

Open model weights: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch
API, billing, and hosted agents: https://portal.nousresearch.com
Papers and research: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=nous+research&searchtype=all

## Company

- [Nous Research](https://nousresearch.com/): Company site, research announcements, releases, careers
- [Commitment to development](https://nousresearch.com/COMMITMENT-TO-DEVELOPMENT): Development principles, open-source stance
- [Domain thesis](https://nousresearch.com/DOMAIN-THESIS): Research direction and thesis
- [Careers](https://nousresearch.com/careers)

## Hermes Agent

- [Hermes Agent docs](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/): Install, configure, and operate the agent
- [Hermes Agent docs index (llms.txt)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms.txt): Curated per-section link index
- [Hermes Agent full docs (llms-full.txt)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/llms-full.txt): Entire docs site in one markdown file
- [Hermes Agent repository](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent)

## Research highlights

- [Introducing Hermes 4.3](https://nousresearch.com/introducing-hermes-4-3)
- [Freedom at the frontier: Hermes 3](https://nousresearch.com/freedom-at-the-frontier-hermes-3)
- [Introducing Atropos](https://nousresearch.com/introducing-atropos)
- [Forge reasoning API beta and Nous Chat](https://nousresearch.com/introducing-the-forge-reasoning-api-beta-and-nous-chat-an-evolution-in-llm-inference)
- [Psyche](https://nousresearch.com/nous-psyche)
- [MoE scaling field notes](https://nousresearch.com/moe-scaling-field-notes)
- [From black box to glass house](https://nousresearch.com/from-black-box-to-glass-house-the-imperative-for-transparent-ai-development)

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://nousresearch.com/sitemap.xml)
- [GitHub organization](https://github.com/NousResearch)