# Teknium ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-05-04 Teknium.jpg|400]] Co-founder and Head of Post-Training at [[Nous Research]]. Previously at [[Stability AI]]. One of the most prolific open-weight LLM fine-tuners — creator/lead of the **Hermes** series of instruction-tuned models (OpenHermes, Hermes 2, Hermes 3) and of many widely-used open datasets for instruction tuning. His work is a major reference point in the open-source [[Large Language Models (LLMs)|LLM]] community on [[AI Fine-Tuning|fine-tuning]], dataset curation, and aligning open-weight assistants. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Teknium]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Teknium]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Nous Research]] - [[Stability AI]] - [[AI Open Weight Models]] - [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] - [[AI Fine-Tuning]] ## References - X / Twitter: https://x.com/Teknium - Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/teknium - GitHub: https://github.com/teknium1