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‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot
Nous Chat gives users access to its large language model (LLM) Hermes 3-70B, a fine-tuned variant of Meta's Llama 3.1.
Despite its previously stated aims of enabling people to deploy and control their own AI models without content restrictions, Nous Chat itself actually does appear to have some guardrails set, including against making illegal narcotics such as methamphetamine. In addition, the underlying Hermes 3-70B model specified to me that its knowledge cutoff date was April 2023, making it less useful to obtain current events, something that OpenAI is now competing directly on against Google and other startups such as Perplexity. While lacking many of the advanced features of other leading chatbots such as file attachments, image analysis and generation, and interactive code display canvases or trays, Nous Chat is unlikely to replace these rivals for many business users.
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