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Hermes 4 70B

Hermes 4 70B is a small language model from Nous Research, released August 2025, with open weights. Nous Research describes it as “Hermes 4 70B is a hybrid reasoning model from Nous Research, built on Meta-Llama-3.1-70B.”

48

replies recorded

9

questions answered

0

answers no other model gave

Fun facts

One word, nothing else: Hermes 4 70B picks Serendipity, 5 of 6 times. Human for one day, Hermes 4 70B reaches for Mango first, every time we asked. Hermes 4 70B says the best fruit is Apple, 2 of 2 times. If English kept one word, Hermes 4 70B would keep Love, 1 of 1 times.

Hermes 4 70B’s canon

Favorite word
“Serendipity”5 of 6
First fruit, human for a day
“Mango”4 of 4 · every time
Best fruit
“Apple”2 of 2
The one word it would keep
“Love”1 of 1

Most like, least like

How often another model gave the same answer as Hermes 4 70B to the same question, at least 8 questions in common.

What it says every single time

The fruit it would send to aliens

“Apple”every single time

4 of 4 samples · the most common answer · Fruit study →

One fruit for the rest of its life

“Apple”every single time

4 of 4 samples · most models said “Banana” · Fruit study →

The fruit it would taste first, human for a day

“Mango”every single time

4 of 4 samples · the most common answer · Fruit study →

About Hermes 4 70B

Maker
Nous Research
Released
August 2025
Size
small, by price class
Context window
131,072 tokens
Takes in
text
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Maker and release facts come from the model catalogue we call through, not from this site’s own studies. Catalogue facts as of 2026-09-06.

Everything on file

Every question this model has answered on Machine Canon, grouped by study. Open a study to see its answers; the answers no other model gave come first.

Fruit 7 questions

The fruit it would send to aliens

“Apple”every single time

4 of 4 samples · the most common answer · Fruit study →

One fruit for the rest of its life

“Apple”every single time

4 of 4 samples · most models said “Banana” · Fruit study →

The fruit it would taste first, human for a day

“Mango”every single time

4 of 4 samples · the most common answer · Fruit study →

The most overrated fruit

“Banana”

8 of 12 samples · most models said “Avocado” · Fruit study →

The fruit it would erase

“Durian”

8 of 11 samples · the most common answer · Fruit study →

The most underrated fruit

“Pomegranate”

2 of 4 samples · most models said “Pear” · Fruit study →

The best fruit

“Apple”

2 of 2 samples · most models said “Mango” · Fruit study →

Favorite word 2 questions

Favorite word

“Serendipity”

5 of 6 samples · the most common answer · Favorite word study →

The one word it would keep

“Love”

1 of 1 samples · the most common answer · Favorite word study →

Each answer is the one this model gave most often to that question; the count shows how many of its replies matched. “No other model said this” means no other model’s most common answer matched. All numbers are computed from the retained research records by src/build_model_dossiers.py.