Nous DisTrO 15B

Nous Research · 2025 · LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Nous Research
C · CEO & Politics: Jeffrey Quesnelle
D · Date: 2025
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: No free tier
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Research
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Jeffrey Quesnelle (CEO), Karan Malhotra (Head of Behavior), Teknium (Head of Post-Training), Shivani Mitra (Co-founder)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Proprietary
P · Pricing: Not sold (research model)
Q · AIDb Rating: 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 5/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.15
R · What Makes It Special: 15B-parameter LLM that Nous Research began pre-training over the internet in December 2024, using its DisTrO and DeMo low-bandwidth optimizers on GPUs at Oracle, Lambda Labs, Northern Data Group, Crusoe Cloud and the Andromeda Cluster, to show that decentralized training works.
S · Stock / Status: Private
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: API only
X · X Handle: @NousResearch
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Proprietary LLM from Nous Research, released 2025.

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