AMA with Nous Research -- Ask Us Anything!

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 4/30/2026

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Key Points

  • Nous Research’s co-founder and CTO invites questions in a Reddit AMA about local models and the company’s Hermes Agent.
  • The post lists several Nous team members (including creators, a chief scientist, core developers, a data specialist, and a UX engineer) who will respond to community questions.
  • The AMA is framed as an open discussion of Hermes Agent and related topics, encouraging users to ask anything they want to know.
  • The author also shares a brief origin story, connecting Nous Research’s work back to earlier community threads and the YaRN research paper.

Hey everyone, emozilla here (u/emozilla), co-founder and CTO of Nous Research. We're the makers of Hermes Agent. Happy to be here and talk all things local models, Hermes, or anything else you may have questions on!

Some of the Nous people who will be answering questions:

p.s. as a little bit of folklore, Nous basically got kicked off from r/LocalLLaMA thread many years ago. The research that lead to the YaRN paper was initially formulated in this thread and eventually lead us down the path to where we are today 🤗

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