Lambda Labs announces 'Hermes 3', the first fine-tuned version of Meta's Llama 3.1 405B model on their cloud. Available through the Lambda Chat Completions API and a user-friendly chat interface, this model is designed for creative writing, complex role-playing, and advanced reasoning tasks. Besides being neutrally-aligned and uncensored, the model has been optimized for efficiency using synthesized data, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning. Free access is provided for a limited time.