Model Family

Hermes

Nous Research's instruction-tuned fine-tunes of Llama, Mistral and Qwen base models.

Definition

Hermes — Nous Hermes 2/3 — are popular community fine-tunes that emphasise strong tool use, function calling and uncensored behaviour. They are go-to options for self-hosters wanting a more agentic open model.

Common use cases

  • Self-hosted agents
  • Function calling
  • Roleplay

Related terms

    Hermes — AI Glossary | Railwail