Nous: Hermes 3 70B InstructModel25/100 via “semantic search and relevance ranking over custom knowledge bases”
Hermes 3 is a generalist language model with many improvements over [Hermes 2](/models/nousresearch/nous-hermes-2-mistral-7b-dpo), including advanced agentic capabilities, much better roleplaying, reasoning, multi-turn conversation, long context coherence, and improvements across the...
Unique: Hermes 3 can be used as a semantic ranker without explicit embedding training, leveraging its language understanding to rank documents by relevance; this is less efficient than dedicated embedding models but more flexible for custom ranking criteria
vs others: More flexible than traditional vector-based search for custom ranking criteria, though less efficient; more cost-effective than using separate embedding + LLM systems for small-scale knowledge bases