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Hermes

Nous Research's community-driven fine-tune series. Hermes 3 sits on top of Llama 3.1 base weights, tuned for very strong tool use and steerable roleplay behaviour.

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Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B

70B

Larger Hermes 3 variant on top of Llama 3.1 70B. Widely used in agent-heavy workloads that need strong tool use combined with reliable function-calling schemas.

Context: 128K
License: llama-3
VRAM Q4: 42 GB

2 models in this family

Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B

70B

Larger Hermes 3 variant on top of Llama 3.1 70B. Widely used in agent-heavy workloads that need strong tool use combined with reliable function-calling schemas.

Context: 128K
License: llama-3
VRAM Q4: 42 GB

Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B

NousResearch's community-driven fine-tune on the Llama 3.1 8B base. Tuned for strong tool use, function calling and steerable persona behaviour. Inherits Llama 3's community licence and its 128K context.

Context: 128K
License: llama-3
VRAM Q4: 4.8 GB

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