Karan Malhotra is a co-founder of Nous Research who works on model behavior and agents. He created WorldSim.[1][3]
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Career
Malhotra describes his work at Nous as model behavior and agents, and identifies WorldSim as a project he created. His personal site connects this interest to artificial-life systems and simulation. It also records earlier work at Stanford’s Brain Stimulation Lab, without supplying a formal job title or dates.[1]
Contributions
Hermes4 combines reasoning-focused and general instruction-following data. Malhotra co-authored the report describing its training methods, response-length controls and evaluations. The team released model weights for study and adaptation.[2]
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Writing, research & talks
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Hermes 4 Technical Reportarxiv.orgMethods and evaluations for an open model family that combines reasoning and general instruction-following.
Read the report’s introduction and data sections to understand the model’s purpose before its benchmark tables. Familiarity with language-model fine-tuning helps with the training details.
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