Nous Research, the New York-based AI collective known for developing what it calls “personalized, unrestricted” language models, has launched a new Inference API that makes its models more accessible to developers and researchers through a programmatic interface.

The API launch represents a significant expansion of Nous Research’s offerings, which have gained attention for challenging the more restricted approaches of larger AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

“We heard your feedback, and built a simple system to make our language models more accessible to developers and researchers everywhere,” the company announced on social media today.

The initial API release features two of the company’s flagship models: Hermes 3 Llama 70B, a powerful general-purpose model based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture, and DeepHermes-3 8B Preview, the company’s recently released reasoning model that allows users to toggle between standard responses and detailed chains of thought.