Overview
Nous Research is an open-source AI lab known for the MIT-licensed hermes-agent harness and fine-tuned models, popular with self-hosted agent developers.
Recent Developments
- 2026-10-07: 1.5B valuation (Robot Ventures lead); launches Hermes for Businesses with SSO, auditing, and Teams/Slack integrations; cites 24M+ clones and ~2.5% global AI token usage (company estimate); ~100M+ year-end target per WSJ (2026-10-07-nous-research-1-5b-hermes-business)
Token-share and clone metrics are company-reported; ARR targets are forward-looking.