Nous Research is a private applied research group. We publish open-source work in the LLM domain, including local models, datasets, and core architectural improvements.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $65M
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 02.10.2024 | Breed | breed.vc |
| 04.04.2025 | Collab+Cur... | collabcurr... |
| 04.07.2025 | North Isla... | northislan... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 29.04.2025 | - | $65M | - |
Mentions in press and media 21
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| 14.01.2026 | Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment | Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in ju... |
| 15.12.2025 | Nous Research just released Nomos 1, an open-source AI that ranks second on the notoriously brutal Putnam math exam | Nous Research, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, released on Tuesday an open-source mathematical reasoning system called Nomos 1 that achieved near-elite human performance on this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathemat... |
| 28.08.2025 | Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Nous Research, a secretive artificial intelligence startup that has emerged as a le... |
| 14.08.2025 | That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A comprehensive new study has revealed that open-source artificial intelligence mod... |
| 06.08.2025 | The initial reactions to OpenAI’s landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s long-awaited return to the “open” of its namesake occurred yesterday with ... |
| 22.07.2025 | Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business c... |
| 29.04.2025 | Nous Research: Pioneering the Future of Decentralized AI | In the bustling streets of New York City, a quiet revolution is brewing. Nous Research, a startup founded in 2023, is shaking up the artificial intelligence landscape. With a recent funding round that raised $65 million, the company is pois... |
| 29.04.2025 | Nous Research Raises $65M in Funding | Nous Research, a NYC-based company developing human-centric simulators and models, raised $65M in funding. The round consisted of a $50M led by Paradigm, plus $15M from Together AI, Distributed Global, North Island Ventures, Delphi Digital,... |
| 25.04.2025 | Nous Research secures $50M from Paradigm to build decentralized AI on Solana | - |
| 25.04.2025 | Nous Research raises $50M for decentralized AI training led by Paradigm Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide f... | Nous Research, a decentralized artificial intelligence startup, today said it has raised $50 million in an early-stage round almost entirely funded by the crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm. According to a report from Fortune, the Seri... |
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