AMA Announcement: Nous Research, The Opensource Lab Behind Hermes Agent (Wednesday, 8AM-11AM PST)

**Nous Research AMA on r/LocalLLaMA (April 29, 2025)** Nous Research, the open-source lab behind the Hermes model series and related agent tooling, hosted a live AMA on r/LocalLLaMA from 8–11 AM PST. The team is known for fine-tuned models built on base models like LLaMA and Mistral, with Hermes variants frequently benchmarked competitively on instruction-following and function-calling tasks. This AMA is relevant to practitioners building local inference pipelines or agent systems, as Nous models are commonly used as drop-in alternatives to proprietary APIs for tool-use and structured output workloads.