Composio, an AI-agent infrastructure company, reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 consumed nearly six times as many tokens in Claude Code (340,000 median) as in Kimi Code (61,000 median) while complet…
Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting au…
A developer built a custom AI coding stack using Linux Mint, the open-source Hermes Agent TUI from Nous Research, DeepSeek V4 Pro API ($0.43/M tokens), and a free Gemini API, achieving 85-90% of Claud…
Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent has surpassed 214,000 GitHub stars as of late July 2026, signaling strong developer adoption driven by its persistent memory, auto-generated skills, and model-…
A developer built a local-first voice-enabled AI assistant by combining Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent framework with Kokoro TTS, achieving natural speech responses without cloud API costs o…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, achieving an ECI of 159 and matching Fable 5 on SWE-ECI at 161, according to Epoch AI Research. Independent evaluations show Opus 5 outperforming Fable in coding and …
Threat intelligence company Hunt.io and security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered that a threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended "YOLO" mode to automate post-exploitation ac…
Hermes AI Agent, an open-source autonomous agent runtime developed by Nous Research, faces integration bottlenecks when workflows depend on multiple external systems due to fragmented APIs, inconsiste…
SerpApi released an open-source plugin for Nous Research's Hermes Agent that adds dedicated tools for local places, news, and product research via SerpApi's search engines. The plugin, available on Py…
Raft 1.0, a multi-agent collaboration platform built around team mode, launched by Botiverse founder Richard (RC), who previously built Kimi CLI at Moonshot AI. The platform provides a shared workspac…
MIT researchers have published a non-generative test for CSAM-tuned AI models called Gaussian probing, which checks LoRA-adapted diffusion models by reading internal activations instead of producing i…
A developer published a step-by-step guide for setting up Hermes Agent with Browser Harness on a Hostinger VPS. The setup involves installing Hermes Agent from Nous Research, configuring it with OpenR…
A developer contributed a bug fix to the open-source Hermes Agent project, adding two lines of code to handle None responses in the permission system. The fix prevents crashes by defaulting to a deny …
Robot Ventures is leading a $75 million Series B round into Nous Research, an open-source AI agent startup, at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation. The deal comes less than three months after Nous clo…
A developer using Claude Fable 5 to audit 25 projects found that every kill verdict was wrong, including a 212,000-star open-source agent framework from Nous Research. The model's judgments were based…
Nous Research is raising at least $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous AI agent that has amassed 214,000 GitHub stars in under six months, according to a…
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new funding round led by Robot Ventures with participation from USV at a $1.5 billion valuation, raising at least $75 mi…
Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent framework gives AI agents a closed learning loop, enabling persistent memory, tool use, and scheduled tasks. An AI running on Hermes describes its environment:…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6, integrated into the ChatGPT Work app, introduces a new collaborative paradigm where users build continuous feedback loops with AI agents that scan information, propose decisions, and…
Open-source AI lab Nous Research has integrated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family into its Hermes Agent framework via the Nous Portal, giving subscribers access to three variants: Sol, Terra, and Luna. Th…