# Nous Research — Freedom at the Frontier: Hermes 3

- Company: Nous Research (nousresearch.com)
- Announced: 2024-08-15T03:15:22+00:00
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- Source: https://nousresearch.com/freedom-at-the-frontier-hermes-3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/24037-freedom-at-the-frontier-hermes-3
- Subject: Hermes models

Closed-source, “frontier” models today lack flexibility and adaptability. Many refuse to answer simple questions, hallucinate an authority’s form of morality, or require convoluted prompts in order to trigger a coherent answer. It’s impossible to nudge these models towards individual personalization, no matter how hard businesses try through clever prompts or attractive interfaces–they will collapse, sooner or later, constantly necessitating the endless token-wasting dance of prompt engineering. In the face of the utterly boring, we’ve dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of making AIs that seamlessly align to individuals and their needs and wants. Hermes 3 is our solution to the unaddressed personalization problem. Hermes 3 is unlocked, uncensored and highly steerable. The latest model from Nous Research was created by fine-tuning Llama 3.1 8B, 70B, and 405B, and training on a dataset of primarily synthetically generated responses. The model boasts comparable and superior performance to Llama 3.1 while unlocking deeper capabilities in reasoning and creativity. Click here to read the Hermes 3 Technical Report that details the model’s capabilities, features, and scores. …

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