Nous Research Funding History
Nous Research develops the Hermes family of open-weight language models. It also builds Hermes Agent, an open-source personal AI assistant with memory, skills and messaging integrations.
Company Overview
Nous Research
Founded 2023
Official WebsiteNous Research Funding Timeline
Series B
US$90 million
Alongside the financing, Nous was expanding its Hermes agents to business users who wanted to run customized workflows while retaining control of their data.
Led by Robot Ventures. Participation included NVIDIA, Union Square Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator.
Source · nousresearch.com ↗Series A
US$50,000,000
The financing supported Nous Research’s approach to distributed AI model training.
Led by Paradigm.
Source · siliconangle.com ↗
Nous Research Founding Team
Nous Research’s team works on open language models and techniques for training them across distributed hardware. Those efforts include the Hermes models and research on reducing the communication required during training. The founding team included Bowen Peng.
- Jeffrey Quesnelle — CTO. Researcher behind the Hermes model series.
Nous Research Company Development
Hermes Models Get a Persistent Agent Interface
Nous Research built Hermes as an open-weight model family and later released Hermes Agent. The agent adds memory, skills and messaging integrations, extending the work from model output to running tasks across repeated interactions.
Nous Research Competitive Landscape
Hosted and Open Personal Agents
Hermes Agent gives developers an open-source agent to configure with their own skills and messaging gateways. Moonshot’s Kimi Claw offers hosted OpenClaw operation. For teams comparing a persistent agent setup, the main difference is who manages the runtime and configuration.
