AMA with Nous Research -- Ask Us Anything!

Nous Research, the team behind the popular Hermes Agent and the YaRN paper, hosted an AMA on Reddit featuring key members including co-founder and CTO emozilla, co-founder and head of Hermes Agent teknium-official, chief scientist bloc97, and core developers alt-glitch, yoniebans, and phragg. The AMA covered a wide range of topics from local model development to the history of the organization. Notably, the team shared that their research leading to the YaRN paper—a critical advancement in neural network scaling—was initially formulated in a r/LocalLLaMA thread years ago, before they were kicked off the subreddit, which ultimately pushed them to form Nous Research.

During the session, the team fielded questions about Hermes Agent, their flagship product, and discussed technical aspects of local model optimization, data curation, and the future of open-source AI. The AMA highlighted their commitment to community-driven research and transparent development, with team members from various disciplines—engineering, data science, and UX—contributing insights. The event served as both a technical deep dive and a retrospective on how early community interactions shaped their path to becoming a leading research group in the local AI space.