When I first picked the name, after a chat with Claude, I hadn't come across Nous Research back then, and they didn't show up Googling for just nous.

I see a bit of reuse of words in other various llm related projects.

Langchain/langfuse/langflow

Llama/ollama/llamaindex

so I hadn't been too worried about it when became aware of them.

That's what Show HN is for, getting feedback, and a name changed now would be easy before I post it around more.