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Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B Overview
Hermes 3 is Nous Research's flagship 70 billion parameter large language model, building on the Llama-3.1 architecture with a 32,768 token context window. This iteration significantly advances the Hermes series, focusing on user alignment and powerful steering capabilities.
Key Capabilities
- Advanced Agentic Capabilities: Enhanced for complex task execution and autonomous behavior.
- Improved Roleplaying & Reasoning: Offers much better performance in role-play scenarios and logical deduction.
- Multi-turn Conversation & Long Context Coherence: Maintains consistency and understanding over extended dialogues.
- Reliable Function Calling & Structured Output: Features more robust and dependable function calling, including JSON mode for structured responses.
- Enhanced Code Generation: Demonstrates improved skills in generating code.
- ChatML Prompt Format: Utilizes ChatML for structured multi-turn conversations, compatible with OpenAI API formats, allowing for flexible system prompts.
Benchmarks
Hermes 3 is competitive with, and in some areas superior to, Llama-3.1 Instruct models across general capabilities, showcasing varying strengths.
Good for
- Applications requiring advanced agentic behavior and complex task automation.
- Developing chatbots and virtual assistants that need strong roleplaying and multi-turn conversational abilities.
- Scenarios demanding reliable function calling and structured JSON outputs.
- Code generation tasks and generalist assistant functionalities.