Nous Research
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Nous Research is an open-source AI company founded in 2023 by Jeffrey Quesnelle, Karan Malhotra, Teknium, and Shivani Mitra, growing out of a community of researchers collaborating on Discord and GitHub. The organization focuses on developing open-weights language models and decentralized training infrastructure, positioning itself as a leading force in the American open-source AI movement. In April 2025, Paradigm led a $50 million Series A at a reported $1 billion valuation.
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Self-improving agent that creates skills from experience and keeps a persistent model of users across sessions.
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Nous Research shipped automated local model setup in Hermes Desktop: it profiles the machine's hardware, selects a fitting model, then handles download and runtime configuration. Rolling out for Hermes Agent on NVIDIA systems running Windows and Linux.