Nous Research secures 90 million dollars to expand enterprise artificial intelligence agents

Nous Research has raised 90 million dollars in a Series B funding round that values the startup at 1.5 billion dollars, TechCrunch AI and Dealroom reported. TechCrunch AI, The Next Web, UA.NEWS, TOKENPOST, and Dealroom all confirm that the capital will support expanding the open source Hermes Agent into enterprise markets. Robot Ventures led the funding round, TechCrunch AI reported. [1][3][4][5][6]

Additional backers for the round include Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Samsung, and 1789 Capital, according to TechCrunch AI. TechCrunch AI added that the three-year-old startup has now raised 158 million dollars in total financing. [1]

Hermes Agent is designed to execute autonomous, multi-step tasks utilizing large language models. The agent can operate with both locally hosted and remotely hosted language models. The open source software has been cloned over 24 million times and accounts for approximately 2.5 percent of global artificial intelligence token usage, according to estimates provided by Nous Research and reported by TechCrunch AI. [1][7]

The lab focuses on developing open source models, including its Hermes series that emphasizes long-term context retention and synthetic data-driven fine-tuning. The organization has also worked on efforts such as DisTrO to train frontier-scale models across decentralized networks. [8]