Teknium says he's done with post-training, now fully building the Hermes agent
Teknium · x · 2026-11-07
Teknium (Eric Hartford) of NousResearch reveals in a reply about SFT vs DPO that he no longer does post-training — that work is now led by @dmayhem93 — while he personally focuses on building the Hermes agent.
A public shift in focus for a key open-source community figure, suggesting NousResearch is tilting from model post-training toward agents.
Related event: Teknium steps back from post-training to focus on Hermes agents(2 posts)→
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