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Nous Research

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Nous Research matters because it sits at the intersection of open model development, frontier-style experimentation, and a highly engaged builder community.

New York, USFounded 2023No public API trackedWeekday review target

Editorial intelligence brief

Editorial focus

Weekday review target

Announced a $90M Series B in October 2026 to build Hermes for Businesses; the enterprise offering remains planned.

Focus: Open model research, reasoning systems, and decentralized training infrastructure

Latest funding

$90M

Series B · source-backed

Tracked funding

$90M

Sum of itemized funding events

Latest valuation

Not tracked

No source-backed record

Latest revenue

Not tracked

Research lifecycle position

Editorially verified updates

What changed

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Announced a $90M Series B in October 2026 to build Hermes for Businesses

Announced a $90M Series B in October 2026 to build Hermes for Businesses; the enterprise offering remains planned.

Nous Research · Read source ↗Added to map Oct 10, 2026

External coverage of Nous Research

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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.

Source-backed financial history

Funding and financial history

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partial coverage · 1 record

Records

1

Sum of recorded funding

$90M

Coverage

partial

Partial history: earlier or intervening rounds may be missing. The sum covers only the announcements recorded here, not lifetime funding. Announced commitments may be paid over time; this is not a cash balance. Dates show announcements or first public reports, which can follow the investment itself.

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Series B · $90M

Running tracked total: $90M

Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.

Product surface

Products and model families

Recent models

No standalone model family is structured for this profile.

Products

HermesNous ChatPsyche Network

Open weights

Yes

API access

No

Review target

Weekday

Market position

Lifecycle and strategic signals

Research

Preview

Growth

Deployment

Research: Early research & prototypes

Focus

Open model research, reasoning systems, and decentralized training infrastructure

Signals

Open researchOpen communityResearch-first

Taxonomy

Frontier LabsOpen sourceResearch

Competitive context

Mistral AIAI2Arcee AI

Infrastructure & distribution

Where Nous Research sits in the AI stack

Infrastructure provider
01

Model layer

No standalone model family tracked

02

Access layer

Self-hostable weights

03

Market layer

Open Weight Labs

Public product surface

HermesNous ChatPsyche Network

Stack signals

Open sourceResearchOpen researchOpen communityResearch-first

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