Nous Research is an open-source AI lab that builds decentralized AI training infrastructure, co-founded by Jeffrey Quesnelle, Karan Malhotra, Teknium, and Shivani Mitra. Nous Research's Twitter Score is 425 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #536 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Nous Research was co-founded by Jeffrey Quesnelle, who serves as CEO, alongside Karan Malhotra as Head of Behavior, Teknium as Head of Post Training, and Shivani Mitra. The lab's core project is Psyche, an open infrastructure for decentralized AI training that uses the Solana blockchain for coordination. Psyche's first run is set to pretrain a 40B parameter model named Consilience across 20 trillion tokens.
Nous Research raised $65M in funding, comprising a $50M round led by Paradigm and an additional $15M from Distributed Global, Together AI, North Island Ventures, Delphi Digital, and Raj Gokal. Nous Research has published 3,420 posts and has been mentioned by 304 accounts a total of 635 times, reflecting sustained attention from the broader crypto and AI communities.
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