Post-training a public model family
Nous Research applied additional training to Llama 3.1 foundations. The original Hermes 4 checkpoints offered hybrid reasoning behavior and downloadable weights under Llama terms. Later Hermes versions and sizes are separate releases. [1][2][3]
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Nous Research · Aug 25, 2025
- Hermes 4 — Llama-3.1 70B
Nous Research · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
- Hermes 4 — Llama-3.1 405B
Nous Research · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
- Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions
VentureBeat · Aug 28, 2025