A start-up company with only 10 people, Nous Research, has challenged tech giant Meta with its AI model called Hermes3. Fine-tuned from the Llama3.1 model, Hermes3 boasts powerful performance, optimizing VRAM and disk requirements, capable of running on a single node. The model excels in dialogue capabilities, text understanding quality, and integrated agent capabilities, showcasing advanced abilities that transcend traditional language modeling. Nous Research focuses on open source.