Nous Research is a private applied research group known for publishing open-source work in the large language model (LLM) domain. They have developed several LLM models, including the Nous Hermes Family of LLMs. The company has also contributed to post-transformers architecture with models like the StripedHyena 7B, which is a hybrid architecture based on efficient scaling laws. These models are available for download on platforms like Hugging Face. Nous Research has been involved in training and fine-tuning processes, dataset curation, and has collaborated with other organizations and individuals in the development of these models