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Naous Research's journey began with the Hermes series, a collection of large language models built upon Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture. Initially, these models were quite technical—requiring users to download and run them locally or access them through third-party integrations. However, this barrier has been significantly lowered with the launch of News Chat, an accessible chatbot interface utilizing the Hermes 370B Model A, a fine-tuned variant.