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Nous: Hermes 2 Theta 8B

nousresearch/hermes-2-theta-llama-3-8b

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An experimental merge model based on Llama 3, exhibiting a very distinctive style of writing. It combines the the best of Meta's Llama 3 8B(opens in new tab) and Nous Research's Hermes 2 Pro(opens in new tab).

Hermes-2 Θ (theta) was specifically designed with a few capabilities in mind: executing function calls, generating JSON output, and most remarkably, demonstrating metacognitive abilities (contemplating the nature of thought and recognizing the diversity of cognitive processes among individuals).

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Context

16K

Released

Jul 11, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Dec 2023

About Nous: Hermes 2 Theta 8B

OpenRouter makes Nous: Hermes 2 Theta 8B by Nous Research available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID nousresearch/hermes-2-theta-llama-3-8b.

Nous: Hermes 2 Theta 8B accepts text and returns text. It has a 16,384-token context window.

It was released on July 11, 2024; its knowledge cutoff is December 31, 2023.

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An experimental merge model based on Llama 3, exhibiting a very distinctive style of writing. It combines the the best of Meta's Llama 3 8B and Nous Research's Hermes 2 Pro. Hermes-2 Θ (theta) was specifically designed with a few capabilities in mind: executing function calls, generating JSON output, and most remarkably, demonstrating metacognitive abilities (contemplating the nature of...

Hermes 2 Theta 8B has a 16,384 token context window.

Hermes 4 70B, Hermes 4 405B, Hermes 3 70B Instruct and 1 more are other text models from Nous Research.

Hermes 2 Theta 8B was released on July 11, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is December 31, 2023.

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